Adult blunt renal trauma: Routine follow-up imaging is excessive

Urology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 62-67

  Breen, Kieran J ^a   Sweeney, Paul ^a   Nicholson, Patrick J ^a   Kiely, Eamonn A ^a   O'Brien, M F ^a  

^a Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903721628     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2014.03.013     Document Type: Article

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