War Syndromes and Their Evaluation: From the U.S. Civil War to the Persian Gulf War

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 398-405

  Hyams, Kenneth C ^a   Wignall, F Stephen ^b   Roswell, Robert ^c  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b US Nav Med Research Unit No 2

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMBAT DISORDERS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030239672     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-5-199609010-00007     Document Type: Review

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