Burns
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 680-687 , August 2010

A retrospective review of burn dressings on a porcine burn model

  • Xue-Qing Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Queensland, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane 4029, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 7 3365 5019; fax: +61 7 3365 5455.
    • ,
  • Olena Kravchuk

      Affiliations

    • Biometrics Unit of School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
    • ,
  • Roy M. Kimble

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Queensland, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane 4029, Australia

,Accepted 4 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.06.200

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Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 680-687 , August 2010

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