Wound Ballistics: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know

Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 82-87

  Mayberry, John C ^a   Trunkey, Donald D ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-04418-9.50019-9     Document Type: Chapter

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