Injury
Volume 41, Issue 8 , Pages 818-822 , August 2010

Review of Lodox Statscan in the detection of peripheral skeletal fractures in multiple injury patients

  • S. Deyle

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • T. Brehmer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • D.S. Evangelopoulos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • Department for Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Bern, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse 63, 3008 Bern, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 762722623.
    • ,
  • F. Krause

      Affiliations

    • Department for Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • L.M. Benneker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • Department for Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • H. Zimmermann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • A.K. Exadaktylos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland

,Accepted 18 March 2010.

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PII: S0020-1383(10)00198-1

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.03.021

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