Femoral vessel injuries in modern warfare since Vietnam

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 733-735

  Pearl, Jonathan P ^a   McNally, Michael P ^a   Perdue, Philip W ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; THROMBIN;

AMPUTATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IRAN; LEBANON; MILITARY MEDICINE; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SOMALIA; TOURNIQUET; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; WAR;

EID: 0141543773     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.9.733     Document Type: Review

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