Injuries caused by antipersonnel mines in Croatian Army soldiers on the East Slavonia front during the 1991-1992 war in Croatia

Military Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-144

  Soldo, Silva ^a   Puntarić, Dinko ^b   Petrovicki, Željko ^c   Prgomet, Drago ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^b Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^c Osijek Regl Assembly Croatian Army   (Croatia)

^d Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CROATIA; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SAFETY; SOLDIER;

EID: 0033011996     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/164.2.141     Document Type: Article

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