Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 4 , Pages 695-701 , October 2010

FAST scan: Is it worth doing in hemodynamically stable blunt trauma patients?

,Accepted 15 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.07.032

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