Accurate anatomical location of war injuries: Analysis of the Lebanon war fatal casualties and the proposition of new principles for the design of military personal armour system

Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 577-581

  Gofrit, Ofer N ^a,b   Kovalski, N ^c   Leibovici, D ^a   Shemer, J ^a,d   O'Hana, A ^a   Shapira, S C ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEREM Medical Services   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BODY SURFACE; BULLET; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FACE; FRONTAL BONE; HELMET; HUMAN; LEBANON; LIP; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SOLDIER; TRUNK;

BLAST INJURIES; HUMANS; LEBANON; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0030263683     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(96)00072-1     Document Type: Article

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