The general characteristics of patients presenting with human bite injuries.

The general characteristics of patients presenting with human bite injuries.

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Study Design A retrospective study of 26 cases of human bite injuries at the Government Dental and Maxillofacial Hospital (now Maxillofacial unit, Rivers State University Teaching Hospital), Port Harcourt, within September 2011 and August 2016. Objective To analyze the pattern, presentation, management, and complications of human bite injuries in...

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... as statistically significant with IBM Corp, Released 2012 (IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0. Armonk, New York: IBM Corp), and the results are presented in Tables 1 and 2. ...
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... to the hospital within the first 24 hours of the injury. The general characteristic is shown in Table 1. Of the 26 patients, 25 (96.2%) who presented in the clinic were surgically managed. ...

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