Spinal cord trauma by a firearm projectile: Epidemiological assessment;Traumatismo raquimedular por ferimento de projétil de arma de fogo: avaliação epidemiológica

Coluna/ Columna

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 290-292

  De Araújo Jr , Francisco Alves ^a,e   Heinrich, Cristina Belotserkovets ^a   Cunha, Marcelo Lemos Vieira ^b   Veríssimo, Denildo César Amaral ^b   Rehder, Roberta ^b   Pinto, Camila Araújo Scharf ^c   Bark, Samir Ale ^d   Borba, Luiz Alencar Birrium ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO EVANGÉLICO DE CURITIBA   (Brazil)

^b Serviço de Neurocirurgia do HUEC   (Brazil)

^c Faculdade Evangelica do Parana FEPAR   (Brazil)

^d Disciplina de Neuroanatomia do Curso de Medicina da FEPAR   (Brazil)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Injuries with firearms; Spinal trauma epidemiology; Spine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856845744     PISSN: 18081851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1808-18512011000400008     Document Type: Article

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