Transmediastinal gunshot injuries

Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 54-58

  Degiannis, Elias ^a   Benn, Carol Ann ^a   Leandros, Emmanuel ^a   Goosen, Jacques ^a   Boffard, Ken ^a   Saadia, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033947506     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2000.106463     Document Type: Article

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