Spinal cord injury: A preventable public burden

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 778-781

  Tyroch, Alan H ^a   Davis, Jim W ^b   Kaups, Krista L ^a   Lorenzo, Manuel ^c  

^a University Medical Center Fresno   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROTRAUMATOLOGY; PARAPLEGIA; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPORT INJURY; STAB WOUND; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0030848892     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1997.01430310092020     Document Type: Article

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