Chronic complications of spinal cord injury

World Journal of Orthopedics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-33

  Sezer, Nebahat ^a   Akkuş, Selami ^a   Uğurlu, Fatma Gülçin ^b  

^a YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic complications; Long term morbidity; Management of complications; Secondary morbidity of spinal cord injury; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921481759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22185836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5312/wjo.v6.i1.24     Document Type: Article

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