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Volume 67, Issue 7 , Pages 1442-1445 , July 2009

Maxillofacial Injuries Caused by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China

Xin-hua Liang, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
Ya-ling Tang, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Tang: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3, Renminnan Road, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, People's Republic of China
En Luo, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
Gui-quan Zhu, MD, PhD
- Research Fellow, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
Hao Zhou, MD, PhD
- Research Fellow, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
Jing Hu, MD, PhD
- Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
Xiu-fa Tang, MD, PhD
- Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
Xiao-yi Wang, MD, PhD
- Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

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