Prevalence of late amputations during the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1027-1029

  Stinner, Daniel J ^a,b   Burns, Travis C ^b   Kirk, Kevin L ^b   Scoville, Charles R ^c   Ficke, James R ^b   Hsu, Joseph R ^a,b  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; WAR;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AMPUTATION; AMPUTEES; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LIMB SALVAGE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78650350719     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00102     Document Type: Article

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