Management of war penetrating craniocerebral injuries during the war in Croatia

Injury

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 613-618

  Marcikić, Marcel ^a   Melada, Ante ^b   Kovačević, Rajko ^b  

^a DR JOSIP BEN EVI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^b KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CROATIA; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; WOUND;

EID: 0032191766     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(98)00146-6     Document Type: Article

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