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Screening helical computed tomographic scanning in haemodynamic stable patients with transmediastinal gunshot wounds

,Accepted 24 July 2006.

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☆ Presented at the South African Surgical Research Society Meeting, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, July 2005.

☆☆ Published in abstract form: Ibirogba S, Nicol AJ, Navsaria PH. Reevaluation of diagnostic procedures for penetrating transthoracic injuries. South Africa J Surg 2005;43/3:138.

PII: S0020-1383(06)00460-8

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.07.039

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