Open Versus Closed Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage in the Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma – A Prospective Study

TY - JOUR

T1 - Open Versus Closed Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage in the Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma – A Prospective Study

AU - Lopez-Viego, Miguel

AU - and institutional affiliations, Additional authors

N1 - Two hundred forty-two patients underwent diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) over a 12-month period. One hundred sixteen patients (48%) were randomized to an open lavage technique and 126 (52%) to a percutaneous (closed) guide wire procedure. The closed procedure required an average of 16 minutes to ...

PY - 1990

Y1 - 1990

UR - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2252119/

M3 - Article

VL - 160

JO - American Journal of Surgery

JF - American Journal of Surgery

ER -