Firearm versus motor vehicle related spinal cord injury: Preinjury factors, injury characteristics, and initial outcome comparisons among ethnically diverse groups

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 150-155

  Waters, Robert L ^a,b   Adkins, Rodney H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE SURGERY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031041249     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(97)90256-2     Document Type: Article

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