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Series of Nine Cases of Axial Displacement of Distal Tibial and/or Fibular Shafts from Aircraft Crashes with Proposal of Potential Mechanisms Cover

Series of Nine Cases of Axial Displacement of Distal Tibial and/or Fibular Shafts from Aircraft Crashes with Proposal of Potential Mechanisms

Scandinavian Journal of Forensic Science
Volume 21 (2015): Issue 2 (December 2015)
By: Stephen L. Richey and  Katrina Richeý  
Open Access
|Dec 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjfs-2015-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2353-0707
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Language: English
Page range: 91 - 98
Published on: Dec 17, 2015
Published by: Sciendo
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Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
fracture,
talus,
aircraft crash,
tibia,
trauma
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Clinical medicine, other

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