Current Problems in Surgery
Volume 44, Issue 9 , Pages 566-619 , September 2007

Terror in the 21st Century: Milestones and Prospects—Part II

  • Gidon Almogy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Assistant Professor of Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • Avraham I. Rivkind, MD

      Affiliations

    • Assistant Professor of Surgery, Head of Department of Surgery and Shock Trauma Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

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