Burns
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 31-36 , February 2007

Burns in Sweden: An analysis of 24538 cases during the period 1987–2004

,Accepted 3 October 2006.

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PII: S0305-4179(06)00315-9

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.10.002

Burns
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 31-36 , February 2007

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