Penetrating cardiothoracic war wounds

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 399-405

  Biočina, Bojan ^a   Sutlić, Željko ^a   Husedžinović, Ino ^a   Rudež, Igor ^a   Ugljen, Ranko ^a   Letica, Dalibor ^a   Slobodnjak, Zoran ^b   Karadža, Jerolim ^b   Brida, Vojtjeh ^b   Vladović Relja, Tomislav ^b   Jelić, Ivan ^a  

^a University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Cardiac injury; Thoracic injury; War; Wound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; FEMALE; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG INJURY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; CHILD; CROATIA; FEMALE; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC INJURIES; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0030949454     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(96)01124-4     Document Type: Article

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