The utility of scores in the decision to salvage or amputation in severely injured limbs
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Indian Journal of Orthopaedics
- Vol. 42 (4), 368-76
- https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.43371
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