Burns
Volume 27, Issue 4 , Pages 404-408 , 1 June 2001

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment in deep frostbite of both hands in a boy

  • Dennis von Heimburg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery-Burn Centre, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen University of Technology, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52057, Aachen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author
    • ,
  • E.Magnus Noah

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery-Burn Centre, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen University of Technology, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52057, Aachen, Germany
    • ,
  • Ullrich P.F Sieckmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesia, University Hospital of the Aachen University of Technology and Euregio Centre for Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy, Aachen, Germany
    • ,
  • Norbert Pallua

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery-Burn Centre, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen University of Technology, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52057, Aachen, Germany

,Accepted 16 August 2000.

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