Position of neurosurgery in deployment medicine

Military Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 462-464

  Pitlyk, Paul J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INJURY; HEAD INJURY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY;

EID: 0029738479     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/161.8.462     Document Type: Article

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