Current treatment of gunshot wounds to the hip and pelvis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 408, Issue , 2003, Pages 110-114

  Zura, Robert D ^a   Bosse, Michael J ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; TETANUS TOXOID;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BALLISTICS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; GUNSHOT INJURY; HIP FRACTURE; HIP INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; ORTHOPEDICS; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEAMWORK; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037337338     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200303000-00012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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