Epidemiological and socio-cultural study of burn patients in M. Y. Hospital, Indore, India

Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 158-163

  Jaiswal, Ashish K ^a,b   Aggarwal, Himanshu ^a   Solanki, Pooja ^a   Lubana, P S ^a   Mathur, R K ^a   Odiya, Sudarshan ^a  

^a MY Hospital   (India)

^b MGM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Burn; Epidemiology; Total body surface area

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149005501     PISSN: 09700358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0358.33426     Document Type: Article

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