Vascular Surgery on the Modern Battlefield

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1193-1211

  Fox, Charles J ^a,b   Starnes, Benjamin W ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATTLE INJURY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SHUNTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

BLOOD VESSELS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RESUSCITATION; TOURNIQUETS; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WAR; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 35048849903     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2007.07.015     Document Type: Review

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