How COVID-19 has affected emergent visits to a Latin-American trauma department: Experience at a Peruvian national trauma referral center
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عنوان ژورنال: Injury
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0020-1383
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2020.11.005