Effect of air bags and restraining devices on the pattern of facial fractures in motor vehicle crashes

Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 113-115

  Simoni, Payman ^a   Ostendorf, Robert ^a   Cox III, Artemus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACIAL BONE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEATBELT; SKULL FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; FACIAL BONES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEAT BELTS; SKULL FRACTURES;

EID: 0038390653     PISSN: 15212491     EISSN: 15383660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfaci.5.1.113     Document Type: Article

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