The management of penetrating abdominal stab wounds with organ or omentum evisceration: The results of a clinical trial

Turkish Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 207-210

  Yücel, Metin ^a   Özpek, Adnan ^a   Yüksekdaʇ, Sema ^a   Kabak, Ismail ^a   Başak, Fatih ^a   Kiliç, Ali ^a   Baş, Gürhan ^a   Alimoʇlu, Orhan ^a  

^a Umraniye Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Emergent surgery; Non operative management; Omentum evisceration; Organ evisceration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918579073     PISSN: 25646850     EISSN: 25647032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/UCD.2014.2760     Document Type: Article

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