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Principles of Burn Reconstruction

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Due to extraordinary advances concerning the understanding of cellular and molecular processes in wound healing, wound care innovations and new developments concerning burn care have been made; burn care has improved to the extend that persons with burns frequently can survive. The trend in current treatment extends beyond the preservation of life; the ultimate goal is the return of burn victims, as full participants, back into their social and business life [1, 2].

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  1. Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Lars-Peter Kamolz & David B. Lumenta

  2. COREMED - Cooperative Centre for Regenerative Medicine, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria

    Lars-Peter Kamolz

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  1. Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Lars-Peter Kamolz

  2. Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke

  3. Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Raymund E. Horch

  4. Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Evangelische Elisabeth Klinik Krankenhau, Berlin, Germany

    Markus Küntscher

  5. Department of Burns & Reconstructive Surgery, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavel Brychta

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Kamolz, LP., Lumenta, D.B. (2020). Principles of Burn Reconstruction. In: Kamolz, LP., Jeschke, M.G., Horch, R.E., Küntscher, M., Brychta, P. (eds) Handbook of Burns Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34511-2_14

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