Missed injuries in military patients with major trauma: Original study

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 598-602

  Kalemoglu, Murat ^a   Demirbas, Sezai ^a   Akin, Mehmet Levhi ^a   Yildirim, Ismail ^a   Kurt, Yavuz ^a   Uluutku, Haldun ^a   Yildiz, Mehmet ^a  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MISSED INJURY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REVIEW; SOLDIER;

EID: 33745933252     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.7.598     Document Type: Review

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