Burns
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1147-1151 , December 2009

Epidemiology of paediatric burn injuries in Hamadan, Iran

  • Saadat Torabian

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +98 918 8193908; fax: +98 811 8276299.
    • ,
  • Mohammad Sadegh Saba

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

,Accepted 4 June 2009.

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PII: S0305-4179(09)00411-2

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.06.194

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Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1147-1151 , December 2009

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