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  • Title: [Diagnostic peritoneal tap and lavage in blunt abdominal trauma (author's transl)].
    Author: Klaue P.
    Journal: Zentralbl Chir; 1980; 105(5):281-90. PubMed ID: 7415636.
    Abstract:
    179 times the diagnostic peritoneal tap and lavage showed a positive result in 450 patients with blunt abdominal trauma including 70 children and 290 patients with multiple injuries. Results were negative 221 times and weakly positive 55 times. With 2 false positive and 1 false negative result the reliability of lavage was above 99%.
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