Looking at trauma and deaths: Diyarbakir city in Turkey

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 111-114

  Yagmur, Yusuf ^a   Kiraz, Mehmet ^a   Kara, Ismail Hamdi ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CITY; DEATH; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TURKEY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 0032951577     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(98)00230-7     Document Type: Article

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