Epidemiology of Thoracolumbar Spine Injury in Blunt Trauma
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Evaluation of spine injury in blunt trauma.
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb01146.x