Evaluation of Mangled Extremity Severity Score (MESS) as a Predictor of Lower Limb Amputation in Children with Trauma

Eur J Pediatr Surg 2013; 23(04): 333-334
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1333117

Letter to the Editor

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

David Stewart

¹Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Christopher Coombs

¹Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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H. Graham

²Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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