Unusual vaginal laceration due to a high-pressure water jet

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 171-172

  Ramos, Joseph P ^a   Garrison, Dale ^a   Phillips, David L ^a  

^a University Medical Center of Southern Nevada   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACERATION; SKIING; SPORT INJURY; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PRESSURE; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA; WATER; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0031723047     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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