Gunshot injuries in Calabar, Nigeria: An indication of increasing societal violence and police brutality

African Health Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 170-172

  Udosen, A M ^a,b   Etiuma, A U ^a   Ugare, G A ^a   Bassey, O O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

^b NONE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CIVIL DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LEG INJURY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; NIGERIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; POLICE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; RELIGION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; VIOLENCE; WOUND DRESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; POLICE; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 34347380388     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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