Burns
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Page 502 , August 2004

Inadequate staple removal a concern for burn specialists and radiologists

  • James Bradley Summers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36616, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-251-639-3431; fax: +1-251-471-7882.
    • ,
  • Joseph Kaminski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
    • Tel.: +1-251-742-9982.

,Accepted 15 January 2004.

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  3. Pape SA, Hodgkinson P. Retained skin staple. Burns. 1994;20:281
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  5. Sheridan R, Shapiro A, Kay D, Petras L, Lydon M. Initial experience with a prototype staple detector. J. Burn Care Rehabil. 2001;22:232–234

PII: S0305-4179(04)00036-1

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.01.017

Burns
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Page 502 , August 2004

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