Acticoat™: A cost-effective and evidence-based dressing strategy

Burns

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 578-579

  Cuttle, Leila ^a   Mill, Julie ^a   Kimble, Roy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVAZINE; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BURN; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EPITHELIZATION; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; SKIN GRAFT; WOUND DRESSING;

EID: 41949122317     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2007.10.012     Document Type: Letter

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