Surgical management of combined stab injury of the spinal cord and the aorta - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 263-265

  Şimşek, Osman ^a   Kilincer, Cumhur ^a   Sunar, Hasan ^a   Hamamcioǧlu, Mustafa Kemal ^a   Canbaz, Suat ^a   Çobanoǧlu, Sebahattin ^a   Duran, Enver ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aorta; Penetrating wound; Spinal cord injury; Stab wound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EVALUATION; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; STAB WOUND; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AORTA; HUMANS; MALE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 3042838557     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.263     Document Type: Article

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