Suicide bombing injuries: The Jerusalem experience of exceptional tissue damage posing a new challenge for the reconstructive surgeon

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 383-387

  Ad El, Dean D ^a   Eldad, Arie ^b   Mintz, Yoav ^b   Berlatzky, Yacov ^b   Elami, Amir ^b   Rivkind, Avraham I ^b   Almogy, Gideon ^b   Tzur, Tomer ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CASE REPORT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SUICIDE; SURGEON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SUICIDE; TERRORISM; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33746697826     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000227736.91811.c7     Document Type: Article

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