Cut throat injuries at a university teaching hospital in northwestern Tanzania: a review of 98 cases
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Cut throat injuries at a university teaching hospital in northwestern Tanzania: a review of 98 cases
BACKGROUND Cut throat injuries though rarely reported in literature pose a great therapeutic challenge because multiple vital structures are vulnerable to injuries in the small, confined unprotected area. A sudden increase in the number of cut throat patients in our centre in recent years prompted the authors to analyze this problem. This study was conducted in our local setting to describe the...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Emergency Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-227X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227x-14-1