Kitesurfing: When Fun Turns to Trauma—The Dangers of a New Extreme Sport

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages E76-E80

  Spanjersberg, Willem R ^a   Schipper, Inger B ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORT INJURY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; AVIATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38449098335     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318046edfd     Document Type: Article

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