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Clinical Analysis of the Utility of Repeat Computed Tomographic Scan before Discharge in Blunt Hepatic Injury

David L. Ciraulo, Heikki E. Nikkanen, Marc Palter, Stuart K. Markowitz, Sheryl G. A. Gabram, Vernon L. Cowell, Stephen Luk, Lenworth M. Jacobs

1996 · 32 citations · 18 references

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Abstract

No patients failed nonoperative treatment or succumbed to their injuries. Findings on repeat CT scan have not altered the decision to discharge the clinically stable patient having suffered a grade III or lower liver injury.

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Significant Trends in the Treatment of Hepatic Trauma Experience With 411 Injuries

H. Leon Pachter, Frank C. Spencer, Steven R. Hofstetter et al. · Annals of Surgery · 1992 · 221 citations · Full text

NONOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF BLUNT HEPATIC TRAUMA

J. Wayne Meredith, Jeffrey S. Young, Jack Bowling et al. · The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care · 1994 · 219 citations

Blunt hepatic trauma in adults: CT-based classification and correlation with prognosis and treatment.

Stuart E. Mirvis, Nancy O. Whitley, J R Vainwright et al. · Radiology · 1989 · 149 citations

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Selective Nonoperative Management of Blunt Liver Injury Using Computed Tomography

Anthony A. Meyer · Archives of Surgery · 1985 · 146 citations

NONOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF BLUNT HEPATIC INJURIES

Harold F. Sherman, Beth A. Savage, M Larry et al. · The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care · 1994 · 120 citations

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