Burns
Volume 27, Issue 4 , Pages 372-375 , 1 June 2001

Toxic epidermal necrolysis: 10 years experience of a burns centre in Hong Kong

  • Shun-yuen Ying

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
    • ,
  • Wai-sun Ho

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +852-26322639; fax: +852-26327974
    • ,
  • Henry H.L Chan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

,Accepted 7 August 2000.

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