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Regional Injury and Sequelae of Wounding

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Gunshot wounds to the head, perforating stab wounds of the heart and lungs, fragmentation of the body by bomb blast, are all obviously immediately fatal events. In this chapter we are not concerned with immediate fatality but with the short and longer term effects of injury. Some of these, such as shock, occur in a few hours. Some, such as fat and thrombotic embolism may occur in a few days after injury, and some like neoplasia and fatal heart disease may be attributed to trauma after some years have elapsed.

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    G. Austin Gresham TD, ScD, MD, FRCPath (Professor of Morbid Anatomy and Histology)

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Gresham, G.A. (1986). Regional Injury and Sequelae of Wounding. In: Colour Atlas of Wounds and Wounding. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4123-6_2

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