Urinary and serum metal levels as indicators of embedded tungsten alloy fragments

Military Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 754-758

  Kalinich, John F ^a   Vergara, Vernieda B ^a   Emond, Christy A ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; COBALT; NICKEL; TUNGSTEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; EMBEDDING; IMPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; URINE LEVEL; WEAPON;

EID: 49749140332     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.173.8.754     Document Type: Article

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