Anti-personnel landmine injuries during peace: Experience in a European Country

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 237-240

  Papadakis, Stamatios A ^a   Babourda, Eleni C ^a   Mitsitskas, Thomas C ^a   Markakidis, Sotirios ^a   Bachtis, Costas ^b   Koukouvis, Dimitrios ^c   Tentes, Apostolos A ^a  

^a General Hospital of Didimoticho   (Greece)

^b National Centre of Emergency Care   (Greece)

^c 496 Military Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

amputation; antipersonnel landmine injuries; illegal migrants; minefields; peacetime; victims

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAR;

EID: 34547654635     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00003769     Document Type: Article

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