Aloe versus silver sulfadiazine creams for second-degree burns: A randomized controlled study

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 587-591

  Khorasani, Ghasemali ^a,c   Hosseinimehr, Seyed Jalal ^a,b   Azadbakht, Mohammad ^a   Zamani, Arman ^a   Mahdavi, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aloe vera; Burn; Silver sulfadiazine; Wound

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ADULT; ALOE VERA; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OINTMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ALOE; BURNS; EMOLLIENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; POWDERS; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651177674     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3944-y     Document Type: Article

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