From the Vascular Surgery Division, Department of Surgery (C.J.F., B.P.), Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia; Norman M. Rich Department of Surgery (C.J.F.), Uniformed University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; Division of Military Casualty Research (J.G.P.), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland; United States Army Institute of Surgical Research (J.F.K.), Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Vascular Surgery Division, Department of Surgery (N.N.S.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington; and Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (J.R.F.), Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Submitted for publication February 26, 2010.
Accepted for publication April 22, 2010.
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Poster presented at the 39th Annual meeting of the Advanced Trauma Applications for Combat Casualty Care, Saint Pete Beach, FL, August 11, 2009.
Address for reprints: Charles J. Fox, MD, FACS, Program Director Vascular Surgery, Vascular Surgery Division, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bldg 2, Ward 64, 6900 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20307; email: [email protected].
