Burns
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 185-187 , March 2004

Acute osteomyelitis after a minor, 2nd degrees burn of the finger

  • Lucian Fodor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and Bruce Rapaport Faculty of Medicine, Ha’Aliya St. 8, Haifa 31096, Israel
    • ,
  • Isaac J Peled

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and Bruce Rapaport Faculty of Medicine, Ha’Aliya St. 8, Haifa 31096, Israel
    • ,
  • Alexander Lerner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery A, Rambam Medical Center and Bruce Rapaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa 31096, Israel
    • ,
  • Yehuda Ullmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and Bruce Rapaport Faculty of Medicine, Ha’Aliya St. 8, Haifa 31096, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972-54-411441; fax: +972-4-8542149.

,Accepted 1 August 2003.

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PII: S0305-4179(03)00232-8

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2003.08.005

Burns
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 185-187 , March 2004

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