A deadly needle-tract: Inward exsanguination

Chin-shen Lin¹, Chi-wei Lee²

¹Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, China
²Research Center for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, China

Received:2021-03-15 Accepted:2021-07-20 Online:2021-09-26 Published:2022-01-01

Chin-shen Lin, Chi-wei Lee. A deadly needle-tract: Inward exsanguination[J]. World Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022, 13(1): 74-74.

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