Screening ultrasonography of 2,204 patients with blunt abdominal trauma in the Wenchuan earthquake

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 890-894

  Zhou, Jixiang ^a   Huang, Jiwei ^a   Wu, Hong ^a   Jiang, Hui ^a   Zhang, Heqing ^a   Prasoon, Pankaj ^a   Xu, Yinglong ^a   Bai, Yannan ^a   Qiu, Jianguo ^a   Zeng, Yong ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

blunt abdominal trauma; earthquake; sensitivity; specificity; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; EARTHQUAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867055420     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318256dfe1     Document Type: Article

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