War Injuries of the Extremities: Twelve-Year Follow-Up Data

Military Medicine,  Jan 2006  by Busic, Zeljko,  Lovrc, Zvonimir,  Amc, Enio,  Busic, Vlatka,  Et al

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Guarantor: Zeljko Busic, MD PhD

Contributors: Zeljko Busic, MD PhD*; Zvonimir Lovrc, MD PhD*; Enio Amc, MS MD*; Vlatka Busic, MD[dagger]; Ljiljana Lovrc, MD[double dagger]; Ivan Markovc, MD§

* Department of Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.

[dagger] University Hospital Dubrava Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.

[dagger] Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care, University Hospital Dubrava Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.

§ General Hospital Nova Gradiska, Nova Gradiska, Croatia.

This manuscript was received for review in July 2004. The revised manuscript was accepted for publication in December 2004.