Burns
Volume 31, Issue 6 , Pages 696-702 , September 2005

The assessment of erythema and thickness on burn related scars during pressure garment therapy as a preventive measure for hypertrophic scarring

  • Eric Van den Kerckhove

      Affiliations

    • Burn Center of the Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Deptartment Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Burns Center, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +32 16 342181; fax: +32 16 348723.
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  • Karel Stappaerts

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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  • Steffen Fieuws

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistical centre of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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  • Jan Laperre

      Affiliations

    • Centexbel, Scientific and Technical Centre of the Belgian Textile Industry, Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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  • Patrick Massage

      Affiliations

    • Burn Center of the Military Hospital, Neder-over-Heembeek, Belgium
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  • Mieke Flour

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology of the Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Belgium
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  • Willy Boeckx

      Affiliations

    • Plastic Surgeon, Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery of the Academische Ziekenhuizen Maastricht, The Netherlands

,Accepted 19 April 2005.

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PII: S0305-4179(05)00133-6

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2005.04.014

Burns
Volume 31, Issue 6 , Pages 696-702 , September 2005

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