Surgical management of complex liver trauma: A single liver transplant center experience

American Surgeon

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-25

  Li Petri, Sergio ^a   Gruttadauria, Salvatore ^a,b   Pagano, Duilio ^a   Echeverri, Gabriel J ^a   Di Francesco, Fabrizio ^a   Cintorino, Davide ^a   Spada, Marco ^a,b   Gridelli, Bruno ^a,b  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84857099768     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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