Burns
Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 1149-1152 , December 2008

The risks of using samovars as the main tea-preparing facility in some Eastern countries

  • Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • NPMC & Medical School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
    • ,
  • Reza Mohammadi

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Shahnam Arshi

      Affiliations

    • Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Leif Svanstrom

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Robert Ekman

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

,Accepted 30 January 2008.

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PII: S0305-4179(08)00049-1

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2008.01.023

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