Abdominal gunshot wounds - A comparative assessment of severity measures

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 334-339

  Shah, Adil Aijaz ^a,b   Rehman, Abdul ^b   Shah, Syed Jawad ^c   Haider, Adil H ^a   Zogg, Cheryl K ^a   Zafar, Syed Nabeel ^d   Hadi, Yousaf Bashir ^c   Zia Ur Rehman, ^b   Zafar, Hasnain ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under receiver operating characteristic; Injury severity score; Low middle income country; Penetrating abdominal trauma; Penetrating abdominal trauma index; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING ABDOMINAL TRAUMA INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH ASIA; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940722907     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.03.061     Document Type: Article

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