Burns
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 593-598 , August 2010

Pathophysiology of nerve regeneration and nerve reconstruction in burned patients

,Accepted 6 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.10.007

Burns
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 593-598 , August 2010

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