Gunshots to the hand and upper extremity

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 408, Issue , 2003, Pages 133-144

  Wilson, Robert H ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; BLOOD VESSEL; BONE INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND; HUMAN; NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL WOUND; TENDON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0037338597     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200303000-00016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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