Epidemiology of Pediatric Head Trauma in Guilan
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c 2012, Kashan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Published by Kowsar, 2012. cc 3.0. Please cite this paper as: Chrcanovic BR. Epidemiology of Pediatric Head Trauma in Guilan. Arch Trauma Res. 2012:1(3): 141-2. DOI: 10.5812/atr.7589
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