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Editorial Comments—Changing Pattern of Pediatric Maxillofacial Injuries at the Accident and Emergency Department of the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan–A Four-Year Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Ziva Elkabetz-Schwartz*
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Department, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Ada Bone
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Department, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Itzik Kochav
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Department, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Nili Meisel
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Department, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Yaron Bar-Dayan
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Department, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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