The impact of skin banking and the use of its cadaveric skin allografts for severe burn victims in Singapore

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 696-700

  Chua, Alvin ^a   Song, Colin ^a   Chai, Andrea ^a   Chan, Lennard ^a   Tan, Kok Chai ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Early excision; Length of hospital stay; Mortality; Skin bank; Skin donation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BURN; CADAVER; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SINGAPORE; SKIN ALLOGRAFT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 4744346369     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.03.016     Document Type: Article

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