Abdominal Vascular Injuries: Workup

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Further Reading

Keywords

abdominal hemorrhage, abdominal trauma, internal injury, internal injuries, gunshot wound, gun shot wound, GSW, stab wound, penetrating wound, motor vehicle accident, MVA, blunt trauma, blunt force trauma, midline supramesocolic hemorrhage, midline supramesocolic hematoma, midline inframesocolic hemorrhage, midline inframesocolic hematoma, lateral perirenal hemorrhage, lateral perirenal hematoma, lateral pelvic hemorrhage, lateral pelvic hematoma

Contributor Information and Disclosures

Author

Timothy H Pohlman, MD, FACS, Professor, Section of Trauma and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine; Director, Surgical Critical Care, Consulting Staff, Methodist Hospital, Clarian Health Partners Inc
Timothy H Pohlman, MD, FACS is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, Society of University Surgeons, and Surgical Infection Society
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Coauthor(s)

H Scott Bjerke, MD, FACS, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Medical Director of Trauma Services, Methodist Hospital, Clarian Health Partners, Inc
H Scott Bjerke, MD, FACS is a member of the following medical societies: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, American College of Physician Executives, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, American Medical Informatics Association, Association for Academic Surgery, National Association of EMS Physicians, Pan-Pacific Surgical Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Southwestern Surgical Congress, and Wilderness Medical Society
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Aleksander R Komar, MD, Fellow, Section of Trauma and Critical Care, SUNY Stony Brook
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Richard Fogler, MD, DS, FACS, Chair, Program Director, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center
Richard Fogler, MD, DS, FACS is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Surgeons and American Society of Abdominal Surgeons
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Medical Editor

Ernest Dunn, MD, Program Director of General Surgery, Director of Trauma and Critical Care, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, University of Texas Southwestern
Ernest Dunn, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, Association for Academic Surgery, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and Texas Medical Association
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Managing Editor

Robert L Sheridan, MD, Assistant Chief of Staff, Chief of Burn Surgery, Shriners Burns Hospital; Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Burns, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Robert L Sheridan, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, American Burn Association, and American College of Surgeons
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CME Editor

Paolo Zamboni, MD, Professor of Surgery, Chief of Day Surgery Unit, Chair of Vascular Diseases Center, University of Ferrara, Italy
Paolo Zamboni, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Venous Forum and New York Academy of Sciences
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Chief Editor

John Geibel, MD, DSc, MA, Professor, Department of Surgery, Section of Gastrointestinal Medicine, and Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine; Director of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital
John Geibel, MD, DSc, MA is a member of the following medical societies: American Gastroenterological Association, American Physiological Society, American Society of Nephrology, Association for Academic Surgery, International Society of Nephrology, New York Academy of Sciences, and Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
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