Reactions to amputation: Recognition and treatment

Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 303-308

  Bhuvaneswar, Chaya G ^a,b   Epstein, Lucy A ^a,b,c   Stern, Theodore A ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ANXIETY; CASE REPORT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REHABILITATION; REVIEW;

EID: 34547700624     PISSN: 15235998     EISSN: 1555211X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/PCC.v09n0408     Document Type: Review

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