A modern combat trauma
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A modern combat trauma.
INTRODUCTION The world remains plagued by wars and terrorist attacks, and improvised explosive devices (IED) are the main weapons of our current enemies, causing almost two-thirds of all combat injuries. We wished to analyse the pattern of blast trauma on the modern battlefield and to compare it with combat gunshot injuries. MATERIALS AND METHODS Analysis of a consecutive series of combat tra...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0035-8665,2052-0468
DOI: 10.1136/jramc-2013-000132