Inpatient hospitalizations of U.S. military personnel medically evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan with combat-related traumatic brain injury

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-135

  Heltemes, Kevin J ^a   Dougherty, Amber L ^a   MacGregor, Andrew J ^a   Galarneau, Michael R ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951531541     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-09-00238     Document Type: Article

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