Entrance and exit gunshot wounds: Incorrect terms for the Emergency Department?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 741-745

  Apfelbaum, Jonathan D ^a   Shockley, Lee W ^a   Wahe, James W ^a   Moore, Eugene E ^a  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrance wound; Exit wound; Forensic; Gunshot wound; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE;

ADULT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0032169694     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(98)00075-4     Document Type: Article

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