Burns
Volume 36, Issue 6 , Pages 759-763 , September 2010

Emotional associations with skin: Differences between burned and non-burned individuals

  • A. Titscher

      Affiliations

    • Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vienna Burn Centre, Department of Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • D.B. Lumenta

      Affiliations

    • Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vienna Burn Centre, Department of Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • L.P. Kamolz

      Affiliations

    • Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vienna Burn Centre, Department of Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 40400 6860; fax: +43 1 40400 6862.
    • ,
  • M. Mittlboeck

      Affiliations

    • Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • M. Frey

      Affiliations

    • Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vienna Burn Centre, Department of Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

,Accepted 25 May 2010.

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☆ Partly presented at the European Burns Association Congress (EBA) in Lausanne, 2–5 September 2009 (Certificate of Excellence Award).

PII: S0305-4179(10)00150-6

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2010.05.020

Burns
Volume 36, Issue 6 , Pages 759-763 , September 2010

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