Management of facial gunshot wounds

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 382-385

  Bukhari, Syed Gulzar Ali ^a   Khan, Idrees ^a   Pasha, Babar ^a   Ahmad, Waseem ^a  

^a National Institute of Heart Diseases National University of Medical Sciences   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Facial gunshot wound; Facial reconstruction; Microvascular free flaps

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MANDIBLE; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; MOBILIZATION; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SINUSITIS; TRISMUS; FACIAL BONE; FACIAL INJURIES; FRACTURES, BONE; MIDDLE AGED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FACIAL BONES; FACIAL INJURIES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955830291     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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