High-velocity gunshot wounds to the head and neck: A review of wound ballistics

Military Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 346-351

  Yetiser, Sertac ^a   Kahramanyol, Mustafa ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD;

EID: 0031979833     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/163.5.346     Document Type: Article

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