Wound fragments from cutaneous sites of U.S. military personnel deployed in operation Iraqi freedom: Clinical aspects and pathologic characterizations

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 475-482

  Maggio, Kurt L ^a   Kalasinsky, Victor F ^b   Lewin Smith, Michael R ^b   Mullick, Florabel G ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLONITRILE; ALUMINUM; ANTIMONY; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; STYRENE; URANIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRAQ; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN INJURY; SOLDIER; WOUND HEALING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 41149113546     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.34093.x     Document Type: Article

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