Terror-Related Injuries: A Comparison of Gunshot Wounds Versus Secondary-Fragments-Induced Injuries from Explosives

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-303

  Sheffy, Nadav ^a   Mintz, Yoav ^b   Rivkind, Avraham I ^b   Shapira, Shmuel C ^b  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRORISM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; TERRORISM; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33747501029     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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