The Anabolic Steroid, Oxandrolone, Reverses the Wound Healing Impairment in Corticosteroid-Dependent Burn and Wound Patients

Wounds

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 203-208

  Demling, Robert H ^a   DeSanti, Leslie ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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