Wartime amputations

Military Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-47

  Jovanovic, Savo ^a   Wertheimer, Borna ^a   Zelic, Zoran ^a   Getos, Zeljko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^b OTOS   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CROATIA; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG INJURY; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0345390298     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/164.1.44     Document Type: Article

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