Burn wound depth assessment - Is laser Doppler imaging the best measurement tool available?

International Wound Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 138-144

  Mandal, Anirban ^a,b  

^a Royal Victoria Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burn depth; Clinimetrics; LDI

Indexed keywords

BURN; CONTENT VALIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FACE VALIDITY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPONSE VARIABLE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN GRAFT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THERMOGRAPHY; WOUND ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33748747207     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4801.2006.00210.x     Document Type: Review

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