Adult Trauma Patients with Isolated Thoracolumbar Spinous and Transverse Process Fractures May be Managed Conservatively to Improve Emergency Department Throughput |
Awad, Kyrillos
(Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center)
Spencer, Dean (Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center) Ramakrishnan, Divya (Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center) Pejinovska, Marija (Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Center for Statistical Counseling) Grigorian, Areg (Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center) Schubl, Sebastian (Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center) Nahmias, Jeffry (Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center) |
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