Hypertension with lower extremity traumatic amputation

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 417-419

  Dell, Katherine MacRae ^a,b   Kaplan, Bernard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0343081479     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280003900708     Document Type: Article

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