Mechanisms of injury in trauma

Prehospital Trauma Care

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 39-59

  Armstrong Brown, Allysan ^a   Yee, Doreen ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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