Haemodynamic instability resulting from a low energy pubic ramus fracture in a 78-year-old woman. A case report and review of the literature

Injury

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 722-724

  Theodorides, A A ^a   Morgan, B W ^a   Simmons, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COLLOID; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CRYSTALLOID; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEMATOMA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBIC RAMUS FRACTURE; RESUSCITATION; SWELLING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; PUBIC BONE;

EID: 79958038503     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.08.037     Document Type: Article

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