The swinging pendulum: A national perspective of nonoperative management in severe blunt liver injury

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 590-595

  Polanco, Patricio M ^a   Brown, Joshua B ^a   Puyana, Juan Carlos ^a   Billiar, Timothy R ^a   Peitzman, Andrew B ^a   Sperry, Jason L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

angioembolization; Liver injury; nonoperative

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIVER; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885345525     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182a53a3e     Document Type: Article

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