The Use of Tannic Acid in the Local Treatment of Burn Wounds: Intriguing Old and New Perspectives

Wounds

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 144-158

  Halkes, S Bart A ^a   Van Den Berg, Albert J J ^a   Hoekstra, M Johannes ^b   Du Pont, John S ^b   Kreis, Robert W ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

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