Does this adult patient have a blunt intra-abdominal injury?

JAMA

Volumn 307, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1517-1527

  Nishijima, Daniel K ^a   Simel, David L ^b   Wisner, David H ^a   Holmes, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMATURIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAPAROTOMY; PALPATION; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859549874     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.422     Document Type: Article

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