Imaging of blast injuries to the lower extremities sustained in the Boston Marathon bombing

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1893-1898

  Guermazi, Ali ^a   Hayashi, Daichi ^a   Smith, Stacy E ^b   Palmer, William ^c   Katz, Jeffrey N ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BLAST INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BONE INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LEAD POISONING; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RHEUMATOLOGY; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; VICTIM;

BLAST INJURIES; BOSTON; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84889002984     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.22113     Document Type: Article

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