Successful nonoperative management of the most severe blunt liver injuries: A multicenter study of the Research Consortium of New England Centers for Trauma

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 423-428

  Van Der Wilden, Gwendolyn M ^a   Velmahos, George C ^a   Emhoff, Timothy ^d   Brancato, Samielle ^g   Adams, Charles ^g   Georgakis, Georgios ^h   Jacobs, Lenworth ^h   Gross, Ronald ^e   Agarwal, Suresh ^b   Burke, Peter ^b   Maung, Adrian A ⁱ   Johnson, Dirk C ⁱ   Winchell, Robert ^k   Gates, Jonathan ^c   Cholewczynski, Walter ^j   Rosenblatt, Michael ^f   Chang, Yuchiao ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^k MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BLUNT LIVER INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861350985     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2012.147     Document Type: Article

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