Role of elevated liver transaminase levels in the diagnosis of liver injury after blunt abdominal trauma

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-260

  Tian, Zhiqiang ^a   Liu, Hong ^a   Su, Xiaofang ^a   Fang, Zheng ^a   Dong, Zhitao ^a   Yu, Changchun ^a   Luo, Kunlun ^a  

^a The 101st Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army   (China)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Computed tomography; Liver injury; Retrospective study; Transaminase

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; INJURY SEVERITY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 84862687331     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2012.575     Document Type: Article

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