Spontaneous Extrusion of Hand Grenade Fragments from the Face 60 Years after Injury [4]

JAMA

Volumn 290, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1317-1318

  Ghislain, Pierre Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BLAST INJURY; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CHIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHEMA; FACE INJURY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN NODULE; FOREIGN BODY; TIME; WAR;

AGED; FACIAL INJURIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; WAR;

EID: 0042413424     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.10.1317     Document Type: Letter

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