Profile of chest injuries arising from the 1995 southern hyogo prefecture earthquake

Chest

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 759-761

  Yoshimura, Naoki ^a   Nakayama, Shinichi ^b   Nakagiri, Keitaro ^a   Azami, Takashi ^a   Ataka, Keiji ^a   Ishii, Noboru ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chest injury; crush syndrome; earthquake

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPRESSION; CRUSH TRAUMA; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX INJURY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0030451070     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.110.3.759     Document Type: Article

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