Bone scintigraphy in screening of torture survivors

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9132, 1998, Pages 949-951

  Mirzaei, S ^a   Knoll, P ^a   Lipp, R W ^b   Wenzel, Th ^c   Koriska, K ^d   Kohn H ^a  

^a WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Elisabethspital ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE LESION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SCREENING; SURVIVAL; TORTURE; VICTIM;

EID: 0032547555     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)05049-1     Document Type: Article

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