Burns
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1152-1157 , December 2009

Cologne burn centre experience with assault burn injuries

  • P. Theodorou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Merheim-Hospital University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cologne City Hospitals (Merheim), Ostmerheimerstr. 200, 51109 Cologne, Germany. Tel.: +49 221 89073817; fax: +49 221 89073878.
    • ,
  • T.A. Spanholtz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Merheim-Hospital University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • ,
  • P. Amini

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Merheim-Hospital University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • ,
  • C.A. Maurer

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Hospital of Liestal, 4410 Liestal, Switzerland
    • ,
  • T.Q.V. Phan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Merheim-Hospital University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • ,
  • W. Perbix

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Merheim-Hospital University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • ,
  • R. Lefering

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • ,
  • G. Spilker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Merheim-Hospital University of Witten-Herdecke, 51109 Cologne, Germany

,Accepted 16 February 2009.

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PII: S0305-4179(09)00065-5

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.02.009

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