Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 202, Issue 2 , Pages 313-319 , February 2006

Surgical Lessons Learned from Suicide Bombing Attacks

  • Gidon Almogy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: Gidon Almogy, MD, Department of General Surgery and Trauma Unit, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • Avraham I. Rivkind, MD (FACS)

Received 30 August 2005 ,Revised 4 October 2005 ,Accepted 11 October 2005.

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PII: S1072-7515(05)01607-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2005.10.011

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 202, Issue 2 , Pages 313-319 , February 2006

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