The American Journal of Surgery
Volume 192, Issue 6 , Pages 710-714 , December 2006

The impact of diabetes on outcome in traumatically injured patients: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank

Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, Kauai, Hawaii, April 3–7, 2006

Received 15 April 2006 ,Revised 10 August 2006

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 Awarded best poster at 58th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress on April 4th, 2006 in Kauai, Hawaii.

PII: S0002-9610(06)00583-6

doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2006.08.031

The American Journal of Surgery
Volume 192, Issue 6 , Pages 710-714 , December 2006

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