The use of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of blunt and penetrating abdominal injuries: 10-year experience at a level 1 trauma center

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 317-321

  Johnson, Jeremy J ^a   Garwe, Tabitha ^a,b   Raines, Alexander R ^a   Thurman, Joseph B ^a   Carter, Sandra ^b   Bender, Jeffrey S ^a   Albrecht, Roxie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal trauma; Diagnostic laparoscopy; Nontherapeutic laparotomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAB WOUND; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; OKLAHOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 84874110972     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.10.021     Document Type: Article

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