Academic Emergency Medicine

Volume 14, Issue 6 pp. 566-567

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Elder Abuse: Keeping the Unthinkable in the Differential

Ryan D. Heyborne MD, 

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Ryan D. Heyborne MD

Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

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Ryan D. Heyborne MD, 

Corresponding Author

Ryan D. Heyborne MD

Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

(Email: [email protected])Search for more papers by this author

First published: 28 June 2008

https://doi.org/10.1197/j.aem.2007.01.015

Citations: 13

No abstract is available for this article.

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June 2007

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