The use of laser Doppler imaging as an aid in clinical management decision making in the treatment of vesicant burns

Burns

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 692-698

  Brown, R F R ^a   Rice, P ^a   Bennett, N J ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b Odstock Centre for Burns   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burn; Laser Doppler imergery; Lewisite; Pig; Sulphur mustard; Vesicant

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; LEWISITE; MUSTARD GAS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE; TISSUE PERFUSION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALS; ARSENICALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CAPILLARIES; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DECISION MAKING; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; IRRITANTS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSTARD GAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE SURVIVAL; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032429196     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(98)00105-3     Document Type: Article

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