Complications of missile craniocerebral injuries during the Croatian Homeland War

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 422-426

  Tudor, Mario ^a   Tudor, Lorainne ^a   Tudor, Katarina Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CRANIOTOMY; CROATIA; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MISSILE WOUND; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR;

EID: 18544390000     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.5.422     Document Type: Article

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