Burns
Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 1119-1127 , December 2008

A porcine model of full-thickness burn, excision and skin autografting

  • Ludwik K. Branski

      Affiliations

    • Shriners Hospital for Children and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
    • Authors contributed equally to this manuscript.
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  • Rainer Mittermayr

      Affiliations

    • Research Center of the AUVA, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria
    • Authors contributed equally to this manuscript.
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  • David N. Herndon

      Affiliations

    • Shriners Hospital for Children and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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  • William B. Norbury

      Affiliations

    • Shriners Hospital for Children and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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  • Oscar E. Masters

      Affiliations

    • Shriners Hospital for Children and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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  • Martina Hofmann

      Affiliations

    • Research Center of the AUVA, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria
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  • Daniel L. Traber

      Affiliations

    • Shriners Hospital for Children and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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  • Heinz Redl

      Affiliations

    • Research Center of the AUVA, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria
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  • Marc G. Jeschke

      Affiliations

    • Shriners Hospital for Children and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 409 770 6742; fax: +1409 770 6919.

,Accepted 6 March 2008.

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PII: S0305-4179(08)00096-X

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2008.03.013

Burns
Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 1119-1127 , December 2008

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