Burns
Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 1059-1071 , December 2008

The year in burns 2007

,Accepted 20 May 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2008.05.029

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Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 1059-1071 , December 2008

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