Necrotizing fasciitis: Experience of a burn care team

Wounds

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 70-77

  Bush, Ruth L ^a   Reilly, Debra A ^a   Missavage, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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