Combat versus civilian open Tibia fractures: The effect of blast mechanism on limb salvage

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1241-1247

  Doucet, Jay J ^a,c   Galarneau, Michael R ^b   Potenza, Bruce M ^a   Bansal, Vishal ^a   Lee, Jeanne G ^a   Schwartz, Alexandra K ^a   Dougherty, Amber L ^b   Dye, Judy ^b   Hollingsworth Fridlund, Peggy ^a   Fortlage, Dale ^a   Coimbra, Raul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat casualty; Combat injury; MESS; Military; Open fracture; Tibia fracture; Wounds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLEEDING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEG AMPUTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAVY; OPEN FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAILOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SHOCK; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955750856     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182095b52     Document Type: Article

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