Small bowel injuries in penetrating abdominal trauma during war: Ten-year follow-up findings

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 721-722

  Bušić, Željko ^a   Lovrić, Zvonimir ^a   Amić, Enio ^a   Bušić, Dubravka ^a   Lovrić, Ljiljana ^a  

^a University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERITONITIS; SMALL INTESTINE; CROATIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INJURY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; WAR;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; CROATIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; TRAUMA CENTERS; WAR; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 16544368375     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.9.721     Document Type: Article

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