Burns
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1158-1164 , December 2009

Establishment of soft-tissue-injury model of high-voltage electrical burn and observation of its pathological changes

  • Chai Jia-ke

      Affiliations

    • Burns Institute, First Affiliated Hospital to General Hospital of People's Liberation Army (PLA) (Formerly 304th Hospital), 100048, Beijing, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 10 66867972; fax: +86 10 68989181.
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  • Li Li-gen

      Affiliations

    • Burns Institute, First Affiliated Hospital to General Hospital of People's Liberation Army (PLA) (Formerly 304th Hospital), 100048, Beijing, PR China
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  • Gao Quan-wen

      Affiliations

    • Burns Institute, First Affiliated Hospital to General Hospital of People's Liberation Army (PLA) (Formerly 304th Hospital), 100048, Beijing, PR China
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  • Shen Xiao-peng

      Affiliations

    • Burns Institute, First Affiliated Hospital to General Hospital of People's Liberation Army (PLA) (Formerly 304th Hospital), 100048, Beijing, PR China
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  • Zhang Hai-jun

      Affiliations

    • Burns Institute, First Affiliated Hospital to General Hospital of People's Liberation Army (PLA) (Formerly 304th Hospital), 100048, Beijing, PR China
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  • Sheng Zhi-yong

      Affiliations

    • Burns Institute, First Affiliated Hospital to General Hospital of People's Liberation Army (PLA) (Formerly 304th Hospital), 100048, Beijing, PR China
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  • Wang Zhi-qiang

      Affiliations

    • Beijing Municipal Power Supply Bureau, Beijing, PR China
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  • Zhang Cai

      Affiliations

    • Beijing Municipal Power Supply Bureau, Beijing, PR China

,Accepted 16 February 2009.

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PII: S0305-4179(09)00064-3

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.02.010

Burns
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1158-1164 , December 2009

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