General Trauma Care and Related Aspects Trauma Surgery II

All European countries, including those that have recently joined the European Union or are candidates for membership, currently show a clear trend towards an increasing number of accidental injuries. This holds true for a range of injuries, including acc

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General Trauma Care and Related Aspects Trauma Surgery II

W. Arnold · U. Ganzer   Series Editors

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European Manual of Medicine

Hans-Jörg Oestern • Otmar Trentz Selman Uranues Editors

Wolfgang Arnold • Uwe Ganzer Series Editors

General Trauma Care and Related Aspects Trauma Surgery II

Editors Hans-Jörg Oestern, MD Director emeritus Academic Teaching Hospital Celle Department of Traumatology Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery Celle Germany Otmar Trentz, MD Director emeritus Department of Trauma Surgery University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland Selman Uranues, MD, FACS Professor and Head Section for Surgical Research Department of Surgery Medical University of Graz Graz Austria

Series Editors Wolfgang Arnold, MD Director emeritus Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Klinikum rechts der Isar Technical University of Munich Munich Germany Uwe Ganzer, MD Director emeritus Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery University of Duesseldorf Duesseldorf Germany

ISBN 978-3-540-88123-0 ISBN 978-3-540-88124-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-88124-7 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London

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