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Outcome at two weeks in patients with Traumatic brain injury following road traffic accidents in an urban tertiary hospital in Uganda

Geoffrey EremDepartment of Radiology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Mulago Hospital, P.O. Box 7072, Kampala, UgandaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Samuel BugezaDepartment of Radiology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Mulago Hospital, P.O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda
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Elsie Kiguli MalwaddeDepartment of Radiology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Mulago Hospital, P.O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda;African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST), Kampala, Uganda
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Udo SchumacherUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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Article: 1326205 | Received 18 Jan 2017, Accepted 26 Apr 2017, Published online: 15 May 2017

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