Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Pages 23-31 , March 2005

Blunt Abdominal Trauma in the Pediatric Patient

  • Douglas A. Potoka, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Douglas A. Potoka, MD, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 3705 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
    • ,
  • Richard A. Saladino, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA

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doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2005.03.003

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Pages 23-31 , March 2005

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