4: Prolonged Tourniquet Use Following Blast Related Lower Extremity Injuries Increase Heterotopic Ossification in a Pre-clinical Model
Purpose: Traumatic heterotopic ossification (tHO) has become a signature pathology affecting wounded military personnel who have sustained blast-associated traumatic amputations during the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heterotopic ossification is characterized by the abnormal development...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer
2021-07-01
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Series: | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open |
Online Access: | http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/01.GOX.0000769940.64959.92 |