Scar assessment: Current problems and future solutions

Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 1 I, 1999, Pages 54-60

  Powers, Pauline S ^a   Sarkar, Sudeep ^a   Goldgof, Dmitry B ^a   Cruse, C Wayne ^a   Tsap, Leonid V ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY IMAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCAR; SCORING SYSTEM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032904154     PISSN: 02738481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004630-199901001-00011     Document Type: Review

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