Vertebral fracture after aircraft ejection during Operation Desert Storm

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 337-341

  Osborne, Richard G ^a   Cook, Albert A ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE CREW; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; SPINE FRACTURE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; BODY HEIGHT; CAUSALITY; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PRISONERS; SPINAL FRACTURES; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 0030960651     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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