Conservative management vs early surgery for high grade pediatric renal trauma - Do nephrectomy rates differ?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 187, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1817-1822

  Jacobs, Micah A ^a   Hotaling, James M ^b   Mueller, Beth A ^b   Koyle, Martin ^c   Rivara, Frederick ^b   Voelzke, Bryan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

adolescent; child; kidney; retrospective studies; wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPHRECTOMY; PEDIATRIC HIGH GRADE RENAL INJURY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 84859557273     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.12.095     Document Type: Article

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