The burden of musculoskeletal injury in low and middle-income countries: challenges and opportunities.

نویسندگان

  • David A Spiegel
  • Richard A Gosselin
  • R Richard Coughlin
  • Manjul Joshipura
  • Bruce D Browner
  • John P Dormans
چکیده

Investigation performed at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, California; San Francisco General Hospital, the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California; Academy of Traumatology, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India; and the University of Connecticut Health Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume

دوره 90 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008