Open injuries of the lower extremity: Issues and unknown frontiers

Injury

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1783-1784

  Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan ^a   Giannoudis, Peter V ^b  

^a GANGA HOSPITAL   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTIC ACID;

BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LEG INJURY; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB AMPUTATION; OPEN FRACTURE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMPUTATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTERLEUKIN-6; LACTIC ACID; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE;

EID: 84866740072     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2012.08.039     Document Type: Editorial

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