Patterns of Head and Neck Injuries in Urban India: A Multicenter Study

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Eric K. Kim¹  Deepak Suri³  Anshul Mahajan⁴  Prashant Bhandarkar⁵  Monty Khajanchi⁶  Anita Gadgil⁷  Kavitha Ranganathan²  Martin Gerdin Warnberg⁹  Nobhojit Roy⁷  Nakul P. Raykar² 

[1] University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine;Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School;Harvard School of Dental Medicine;Government Medical College;Tata Institute of Social Sciences School of Health Systems Studies;Department of Surgery, King Edward Memorial Hospital;World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low-and-Middle Income Countries;Division of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital;Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet;Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital;Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital

关键词: global surgery;    trauma;    India;    low- and middle-income country;    head and neck;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2473974X221128217

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Objective The pattern of head and neck injuries has been well studied in high-income countries, but the data are limited in low- and middle-income countries, which are disproportionately affected by trauma. We examined a prospective multicenter database to describe patterns and outcomes of head and neck injuries in urban India.

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