War wounds: Lessons learned from operation iraqi freedom

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 146-153

  Geiger, Scott ^a,b   McCormick, Frank ^a,b   Chou, Richard ^a,b   Wandel, Amy G ^a,b  

^a Naval Medical Center San Diego ^*  (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPUTATION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARM; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FREEDOM; GRAFT FAILURE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; IRAQ; LEG; LIMB; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOUND CLOSURE; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WAR;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 48049096595     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181773d19     Document Type: Article

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