Burns
Volume 36, Issue 2 , Pages 252-255 , March 2010

The use of “composite dressing” for covering split-thickness skin graft donor sites

,Accepted 7 April 2009.

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PII: S0305-4179(09)00112-0

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.04.003

Burns
Volume 36, Issue 2 , Pages 252-255 , March 2010

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