Iranian military forces in the Bam earthquake

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 859-861

  Abolghasemi, Hassan ^a   Poorheidari, Gholamreza ^a   Mehrabi, Ali ^a   Foroutan, Ghasem ^a  

^a Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University Baqyatallah Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; IRAN; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY SERVICE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RESCUE PERSONNEL;

EID: 26844566530     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.10.859     Document Type: Article

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