Burns
Volume 36, Issue 2 , Pages 212-216 , March 2010

Assessing the severity of inhalation injuries in adults

  • Z. Hassan

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Plastic Surgery, Whiston Hospital, Warrington Road, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 5DR, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 0151 4301262; fax: +44 0151 4301855.
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  • J.K. Wong
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  • J. Bush
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  • A. Bayat
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  • K.W. Dunn

,Accepted 25 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.06.205

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Volume 36, Issue 2 , Pages 212-216 , March 2010

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