Mortality in missile wounds of the head
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Adelola Adeloye
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Article
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1972
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Abstract In a series of 250 patients with missile wounds of the head treated at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, 35 died after admission, a mortality of 14 per cent. Forty-three per cent of the deaths occurred within a week of wounding and were predominantly due to severe anatomical