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Wound ballistics: the management of assault rifle injuries
1Department of Surgery, Letterman Army Medical Center, San Franciso, California.
Military Medicine
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
Studies in our wound ballistics laboratory have shown that excellent healing can occur in complicated assault rifle wounds that are free of tension and well drained. A conservative approach to debridement and excision of tissue in uncomplicated extremity wounds may be a valid and resource-saving technique.