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Combination injuries can result from interplay between radiation and other traumas, such as mechanical wounds or burns. Such injuries are to be expected with high probability inpersons affected by a nuclear catastrophe.
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Messerschmidt, O. (1980). Pathology and Therapy of Combination Injuries: Radiation Dose and Trauma. In: Frey, R., Safar, P. (eds) Types and Events of Disasters Organization in Various Disaster Situations. Disaster Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67093-0_14
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