Lactate dehydrogenase can be used for differential diagnosis to identify patients with severe polytrauma with or without chest injury—A retrospective study

• Weining Yan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weining Yan, Felix Bläsius

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wyan@ukaachen.de (WY); jgreven@ukaachen.de (JG)

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Experimental Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0232-9200

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• Felix Bläsius ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weining Yan, Felix Bläsius

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Tabea Wahl,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Experimental Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Frank Hildebrand,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Elizabeth Rosado Balmayor,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Experimental Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Johannes Greven ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wyan@ukaachen.de (WY); jgreven@ukaachen.de (JG)

  ¶‡ JG and KH also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Experimental Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Klemens Horst

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JG and KH also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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