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Blunt Traumatic Occult Pneumothorax: Is Observation Safe?—Results of a Prospective, AAST Multicenter Study

DOI

116

Citations

23

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2011

Year

Forrest O. Moore, Pamela W. Goslar, Raúl Coimbra, George C. Velmahos, Carlos Brown, Thomas B. Coopwood, Lawrence Lottenberg, Herb A. Phelan, Brandon Bruns, John P. Sherck,
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

Abstract

Most blunt trauma patients with OPTX can be carefully monitored without tube thoracostomy; however, OPTX progression and respiratory distress are independently associated with observation failure.

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