Burns
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 72-75 , February 2005

Glass front of gas fire places: a clear and present danger

  • Zafar Naqui

      Affiliations

    • Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Charlestown Road, Blackley, Manchester M97AA, UK
    • ,
  • Stuart Enoch

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Fellow, Wound Healing Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Medicentre, Cardiff CF144UJ, UK
    • Tel. 44 7710 541798/02920 682187, Facsimile: 44 2920 754217.
    • ,
  • Mamta Shah

      Affiliations

    • Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Charlestown Road, Blackley, Manchester M97AA, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1612 205096; fax: +44 1612 205631.

,Accepted 7 June 2004.

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PII: S0305-4179(04)00179-2

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.06.014

Burns
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 72-75 , February 2005

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