Burns
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 597-602 , August 2005

Treatment of second degree facial burns with allografts—preliminary results

  • Raymund E. Horch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Medical School, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 12, 91054 Erlangen, Freiburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 9131 85 33277; fax: +49 9131 85 39327.
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  • Marc G. Jeschke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Medical School, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 12, 91054 Erlangen, Freiburg, Germany
    • Shriners Hospital for Children, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Gerald Spilker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery and Burn Center, City of Cologne Hospital, Cologne-Merheim, Germany
    • ,
  • David N. Herndon

      Affiliations

    • Shriners Hospital for Children, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Jürgen Kopp

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Medical School, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 12, 91054 Erlangen, Freiburg, Germany

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PII: S0305-4179(05)00043-4

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2005.01.011

Burns
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 597-602 , August 2005

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