Non operative management of abdominal trauma - a 10 years review

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Raza, Mohsin ^a,b   Abbas, Yasser ^a   Devi, Vanitha ^a   Prasad, Kumarapuram Venkatachalam Souriarajan ^a   Rizk, Kameel Narouz ^a   Nair, Permasavaran Padmanathan ^a  

^a KHOULA HOSPITAL   (Oman)

^b not available   (India)

Author keywords

Advanced Trauma life Support; Non operative management; Surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875860087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-7922-8-14     Document Type: Article

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