Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 342-343 , March 2002

Rule out TBI? Serum markers for traumatic brain injury

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☆ Reprints not available from the author. Address for correspondence: Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 215-898-4960, fax 215-573-5140; E-mail: rneumar@mail.med.upenn.edu.

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doi: 10.1067/mem.2002.122007

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 342-343 , March 2002

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