Occult gunshot injury of the temporal bone

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 185-186

  Geary, U M ^a,b   Ritchie, D A ^a   Luke, L C ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gunshot wound; Intracranial injury; Temporal bone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MISSILE WOUND; SKULL INJURY; TEMPORAL BONE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; SKULL FRACTURES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0030977276     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.14.3.185     Document Type: Article

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