title: Neurosurgical management in the combat setting.
abstract: I was the Navy's first neurosurgeon in Vietnam. This wartime setting requires approaches and techniques that are more difficult than those in the civilian setting. Those who have been there can teach a realistic mission orientation to those who might go next time.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pitlyk
mesh_terms: D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D009326:Naval Medicine; D014481:United States; D014744:Vietnam; D014857:Warfare