PAIN MEDICINE SECTION EDITOR CHRISTOPH STEIN Presentation, Diagnoses, Mechanisms of Injury, and Treatment of Soldiers Injured in Operation Iraqi Freedom: An Epidemiological Study Conducted at Two Military Pain Management Centers
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*Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore; †Department of Anesthesiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; ‡Department of Anesthesiology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC; §Pain Management Center, Landstuhl Regional Army Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany; and John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York
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