Severe trauma caused by stabbing and firearms in metropolitan Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 225-230

  Wong, Kenneth ^a,b   Petchell, Jeffrey ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Firearm; Mortality; Penetrating trauma; Stabbing; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; KNIFE CUT; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; STAB WOUND; THORACOTOMY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 18244375019     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2005.03333.x     Document Type: Article

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