Incidence and Severity of Maxillofacial Injuries During the Second Lebanon War Among Israeli Soldiers and Civilians

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1630-1633

  Levin, Liran ^a   Zadik, Yehuda ^b   Peleg, Kobi ^c   Bigman, Galya ^c   Givon, Adi ^c   Lin, Shaul ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c Israel Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine Research   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; ISRAEL; LEBANON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGAN INJURY; PATIENT SELECTION; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; TOOTH INJURY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; ISRAEL; LEBANON; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MAXILLA; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NOSE; ORBIT; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 47249089942     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2007.11.028     Document Type: Article

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