Paraplegia as a result of lightning injury.
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Correspondence to: Mehmet Ergin, Department Emergency, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey Phone: +90 532 345 26 73 e-mail: [email protected] ©Copyright 2014 by the Atatürk University School of Medicine Available online at www.eajm.org DOI:10.5152/eajm.2014.37 This study was presented at 7th European Congress of Emergency Medicine (EuSEM 2012), 3-6 Octobe...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.6150.1464-a