Expanding handgun bullets

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 516-520

  Padrta, Jerry C ^a   Barone, James E ^a,b   Reed, David M ^a,b   Wheeler, Guy ^a  

^a STAMFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistics; Deforming bullets; Exotic ammunition; Fragmenting bullets; Metal jacketed bullets; Unusual ammunition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; BULLET; GUNSHOT INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030847490     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199709000-00022     Document Type: Article

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