For Combat Wounded: Extremity Trauma Therapies from the USAISR

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 660-663

  Devore, David I ^a   Walters, Thomas J ^a   Christy, Robert J ^a   Rathbone, Christopher R ^a   Hsu, Joseph R ^a   Baer, David G ^a   Wenke, Joseph C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ARM INJURIES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 80051628034     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00362     Document Type: Article

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