A quarter century experience in liver trauma: A plea for early computed tomography and conservative management for all hemodynamically stable patients

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 247-254

  Petrowsky, Henrik ^a,c   Raeder, Susanne ^a   Zuercher, Lucia ^a   Platz, Andreas ^a   Simmen, Hans Peter ^a   Puhan, Milo A ^b   Keel, Marius J ^a   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATCHFUL WAITING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATCHFUL WAITING; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 84857449979     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-011-1384-0     Document Type: Article

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