Burns
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 169-175 , March 2004

Delayed primary closure of the burn wounds

  • Mita Prasanna

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Royal Hospital, Department of Anaesthesia, C/o Dr. Athma Prasanna, P.O. Box 1331 Seeb, Muscat 111, Oman.
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  • Prabodh Mishra
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  • C Thomas

,Accepted 8 September 2003.

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PII: S0305-4179(03)00278-X

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2003.09.028

Burns
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 169-175 , March 2004

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