The Contact Cast: An Update and Case Study Report

Wounds

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 26-31

  Birke, James A ^a   Patout Jr , Charles A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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