Primary surgical treatment of war injuries of major joints of the limbs

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-134

  Nikolic D ^a   Jovanovic Z ^a   Popovic Z ^a   Vulovic R ^a   Mladenovic M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BONE DEFECT; BULLET; ELBOW; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; JOINT INJURY; KNEE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASTER CAST; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0032952364     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(98)00239-3     Document Type: Article

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