Antipersonnel Mine Injuries in Southern Croatia

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 313-319

  Radonić, Vedran ^a   Giunio, Lovel ^a   Borić, Teo ^a   Mimica, Željko ^a   Furlan, Dubravko ^a   Definis Gojanović, Marija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTIPERSONNEL MINE INJURY; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CALCANEUS FRACTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; EXPLOSION; EYE INJURY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FIBULA; FINGER AMPUTATION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INJURY SCALE; LAND MINE INJURY; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAPULA; SOLDIER; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE INJURY; THORAX INJURY;

EID: 1842864133     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.4.313     Document Type: Article

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