Blunt abdominal trauma patients: Can organ injury be excluded without performing computed tomography?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1072-1081

  Poletti, Pierre A ^a   Mirvis, Stuart E ^a,d   Shanmuganathan, K ^a   Takada, Tasuyoshi ^b   Killeen, Karen L ^a   Perlmutter, David ^a   Hahn, James ^a   Mermillod, Bernadette ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Kansai Medical University   (Japan)

^c Geneva Hospital   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Computed tomography (CT); Trauma; Triage; Ultrasound; Use

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 9644272316     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000092680.73274.E1     Document Type: Article

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