Patterns of finger amputation and replantation in the setting of a rapidly growing immigrant population

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 534-536

  Gavrilova, Nadezhda ^a   Harijan, Aram ^a   Schiro, Sharon ^a   Hultman, Charles Scott ^a   Lee, Clara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger amputation; Finger replantation; Foreign worker; Hispanic; Migrant worker; Occupational injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FINGER INJURY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; REIMPLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; REPLANTATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77951767903     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181bffcaf     Document Type: Conference Paper

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