Penetrating chest injuries: Unusually high incidence of high-velocity gunshot wounds in civilian practice

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 438-442

  Ilhan Inci, Cemal ^a   Özçelik, Ibrahim ^a   Tacyildiz ^a   Nizam, Özgür ^b   Eren, Nesimi ^b   Özgen, Gökalp ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0031940704     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900412     Document Type: Article

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