Urology
Volume 68, Issue 6 , Pages 1160-1163 , December 2006

Effects of blast injury on kidneys in abdominal gunshot wounds

  • Kenan Karademir

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Army Hospital, Diyarbakır, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Kenan Karademir, M.D., Department of Urology, GATA Training Hospital, 34710 Üsküdar, Istanbul 34643, Turkey.
    • ,
  • Mustafa Gunhan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Army Hospital, Diyarbakır, Turkey
    • ,
  • Cevat Can

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Army Hospital, Diyarbakır, Turkey

Received 23 March 2005 ,Accepted 22 August 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.08.1091

Urology
Volume 68, Issue 6 , Pages 1160-1163 , December 2006

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