Long-term outcomes unilateral transtibial amputations

Military Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 593-597

  Ebmhimzadeh, Mohamad H ^a   Hariri, Sanaz ^b  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGNOSIA; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INJURY; IRAN; IRAQ; LEG INJURY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; TIBIA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION; HUMANS; IRAN; IRAQ; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PAIN; PHANTOM LIMB; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIBIA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949357097     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/milmed-d-02-8907     Document Type: Article

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