Self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head during the war and post-war period

Injury

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 369-373

  Vranković, Djuro ^a   Splavski, B ^a   Hecimovic I ^a   Glavina, K ^a   Mursic B ^a   Blagus, G ^a   Dmitrovic B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BONE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MISSILE WOUND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0032104582     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(98)00054-0     Document Type: Article

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