Management of blunt liver trauma in 134 severely injured patients

Injury

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 837-842

  Hommes, Martijn ^a   Navsaria, Pradeep H ^a   Schipper, Inger B ^b   Krige, J E J ^a   Kahn, D ^a   Nicol, Andrew John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blunt liver trauma; Non operative management

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BILIARY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER HEMATOMA; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; ORGAN INJURY; PELVIS FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SPLEEN INJURY; TREATMENT FAILURE; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INJURIES; INJURY SCALE; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SPLEEN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84918804148     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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