Multiple organ failure as a cause of death in patients with severe burns

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 206-211

  Kallinen, Outi ^a   Maisniemi, Kreu ^a   Böhling, Tom ^b   Tukiainen, Erkki ^a   Koljonen, Virve ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BURN; BURN PATIENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATHOLOGIST; PLASTIC SURGEON; SEPSIS;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; BURNS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE;

EID: 84859217657     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e3182331e73     Document Type: Article

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