Conflicts, military medicine and war casualties in international Orthopaedics
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Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq.
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Each Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Defense provides an online update of American military casualties (the number of wounded or dead) from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.1 According to this update, as of November 16, 2004, a total of 10,726 service members had suffered war injuries. Of these, 1361 died, 1004 of them killed in action; 5174 were wounded in action and coul...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Orthopaedics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0341-2695,1432-5195
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-019-04466-z