Burns
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 649-652 , August 2007

Post-traumatic stress disorder after severe burn in southern Taiwan

  • Ming-Kun Lu

      Affiliations

    • Community Medicine Research Center & Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
    • Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yu-San Lin

      Affiliations

    • Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Plastic Surgery, Chi-Mei Medical Center, 901 Chung Hwa Road, Yung Kang City, Tainan 710, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 6 2812811; fax: +886 6 2203702.
    • ,
  • Pesus Chou

      Affiliations

    • Community Medicine Research Center & Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Tao-Hsin Tung

      Affiliations

    • Community Medicine Research Center & Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan

,Accepted 26 September 2006.

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PII: S0305-4179(06)00311-1

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.09.004

Burns
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 649-652 , August 2007

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