Nonoperative management of adult blunt splenic injury with and without splenic artery embolotherapy: A meta-analysis

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 898-903

  Requarth, Jay A ^a   D'Agostino, Ralph B ^b   Miller, Preston R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal trauma; Angiography; Embolization; Nonoperative management; Spleen

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; META ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENIC ARTERY EMBOLOTHERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; SPLEEN; SPLENIC ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 80054011690     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318227ea50     Document Type: Article

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