Burns
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 481-482 , August 2004

Burns area estimation—an error perpetuated

,Accepted 21 January 2004.

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PII: S0305-4179(04)00040-3

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.01.019

Burns
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 481-482 , August 2004

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