Skin Stretching for Burn Scar Excision - A Critically Appraised Topic

Annals of Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-54

  Agha, Riaz A ^a   Agha, Maliha ^b  

^a QUEEN VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burn management; Burn scar; CONSORT; Critically appraised topic; Randomized controlled trials; Skin stretching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BURN SCAR; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN STRETCHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 84892892621     PISSN: 20490801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2049-0801(12)70014-6     Document Type: Article

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