A broken bone without a fracture: Traumatic foreign bone implantation resulting from a mass casualty bombing

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 388-390

  Leibner, Efraim D ^a   Weil, Yoram ^a   Gross, Eitan ^a   Liebergall, Meir ^a   Mosheiff, Rami ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BONE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOREARM; FOREIGN BODY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; ISRAEL; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

BLAST INJURIES; CARPAL BONES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXPLOSIONS; FOREIGN BODIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; TERRORISM; WRIST;

EID: 13844266100     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000152534.80952.2F     Document Type: Article

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