Gunshot wounds to the extremities

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 139-155

  Dicpinigaitis, Paul A ^d   Koval, Kenneth J ^a   Tejwani, Nirmal C ^b,c   Egol, Kenneth A ^b,c  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^d NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEBRIDEMENT; ELBOW INJURY; FASCIOTOMY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND INJURY; HIP INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KNEE INJURY; LIMB INJURY; NERVE INJURY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SHOULDER INJURY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ELBOW; EXTREMITIES; FEMUR; FOREARM INJURIES; FORENSIC BALLISTICS; HUMANS; HUMERUS; KNEE INJURIES; SHOULDER; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33846021607     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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