Wartime laryngeal injuries
| Autor: | Francis L. Lederer, John Clair Howard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Larynx
medicine.medical_specialty Battle Rehabilitation business.industry media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment General surgery World War II General Medicine First world war Surgery Laryngeal Diseases Neck Injuries Chemical warfare medicine.anatomical_structure Otorhinolaryngology Medicine Humans business Military Medicine Loss of life media_common |
| Zdroj: | Archives of otolaryngology. 43 |
| ISSN: | 0276-0673 |
| Popis: | INJURIES of the larynx do not comprise the most frequent source of war casualties, but they do constitute one of the most serious forms of battle injury. This is true not only as to the immediate prognosis in regard to the loss of life but as to the future rehabilitation of the patient after the immediate crisis is past. The threatened advent of gas warfare would have sent the incidence of laryngeal injuries soaring, as the effect of poisonous gas on the larynx is well known and has been demonstrated not only from the experience of World War I but from accidents or improper handling of poisonous gases in World War II. As the battle casualties have mounted there has been a proportionate rise in laryngeal injuries, although the exact number will never be known as many of them have been recorded as injuries of the neck. Laryngeal and tracheal |
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