Burns
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 151-153 , March 2004

Firework-related childhood injuries in Greece: a national problem

  • Konte Vassilia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Athens University Medical School, 75 M. Asias Street, Goudi, P.O. Box 115-27, Athens, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +30-210-7462187; fax: +30-210-7773840.
    • ,
  • Petridou Eleni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Athens University Medical School, 75 M. Asias Street, Goudi, P.O. Box 115-27, Athens, Greece
    • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Trichopoulos Dimitrios

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Athens University Medical School, 75 M. Asias Street, Goudi, P.O. Box 115-27, Athens, Greece
    • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

,Accepted 8 September 2003.

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PII: S0305-4179(03)00280-8

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2003.09.019

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