Maxillofacial fractures at Waikato Hospital, New Zealand: 1989 to 2000

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1217, 2005, Pages

  Buchanan, Jessica E ^a   Colquhoun, Angus N ^b   Friedlander, Lara T ^a   Evans, Steve A ^b   Whitley, Brian D ^b   Thomson, W Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLA FRACTURE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIOLENCE; ABORIGINE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FALLING; FRACTURE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 26944438029     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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