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Complications of pelvic and acetabular fractures in 1331 morbidly obese patients (BMI ≥ 40): a retrospective observational study from the National Trauma Data Bank

BACKGROUND: There have been no large-scale epidemiological studies of outcomes and perioperative complications in morbidly obese trauma patients who have sustained closed pelvic ring or acetabular fractures. We examined this population and compared their rate of inpatient complications with that of...

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Autores principales: Carson, James T., Shah, Sabin G., Ortega, Gezzer, Thamyongkit, Sorawut, Hasenboehler, Erik A., Shafiq, Babar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6114733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30181776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-018-0172-2