Pediatric burns with snap-cap fireworks

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 218-220

  Karamanoukian, Raffy L ^a   Kilani, Marwa ^b   Lozano, Daniel ^b   Sundine, Michael ^a   Karamanoukian, Hratch L ^c   Delarosa, Jacob ^b   Behnam, Shahdad ^a   Evans, Gregory R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BURN; BURN PATIENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PEDIATRICS; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; WOUND DRESSING; CONVALESCENCE; EXPLOSION; INJURY SCALE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; BURN UNITS; BURNS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; EXPLOSIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745397587     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BCR.0000203491.71720.61     Document Type: Article

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