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    Jowan G. Penn-Barwell

  2. Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Centre Defence Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2GW, UK

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Penn-Barwell, J.G., Kendrew, J., Sargeant, I.D. (2017). Amputation. In: Breeze, J., Penn-Barwell, J., Keene, D., O'Reilly, D., Jeyanathan, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ballistic Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61364-2_31

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