Challenges in reconstructive surgery: Management of "bride burning"

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Araco, Antonino ^a   Gravante, Gianpiero ^a,b   Araco, Francesco ^a   Gentile, Pietro ^a   Cervelli, Valerio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFURIC ACID;

ADULT; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BANGLADESH; BURN; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEFORMITY; EAR RECONSTRUCTION; ESTHETICS; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INDIA; LETTER; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; PAKISTAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN EXPANSION; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; SOCIAL LIFE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BURN; CONTRACTURE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE;

ADULT; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CONTRACTURE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SULFURIC ACIDS;

EID: 58149164905     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318186ccdb     Document Type: Letter

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