Electrical and lightning injuries

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-261

  Maghsoudi, Hemmat ^a,b   Adyani, Yosef ^a   Ahmadian, Nahid ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; DECUBITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRIC ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC INJURY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PANCREATITIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEX RATIO; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; BANDAGES; BURN UNITS; BURNS, ELECTRIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEBRIDEMENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIGHTNING INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOGLOBINURIA; SEASONS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 33947120554     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0B013E318031A11C     Document Type: Article

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