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Pediatric Surgery

Burns are defi ned as coagulative destruction of tissue by thermal, chemical or electrical injury.

This simplistic defi nition does however fail to incorporate the signifi cant short and long term sequelae of these injuries, and the devastating social, functional and cosmetic consequences resulting from burn wounds.

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  • Barret-Nerin J, Herndon DN (eds) (2004) Principles and Practice of Burn Surgery. Informa Healthcare, New York

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  • Heimbach DM, Engrav' H (1984) Surgical Management of the Burn Wound. Raven, New York

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  • Sheridan RL, Tompkins RJ (2005) In KT Oldham, PM Colombani, RP Foglia, MA Skinner (eds) Burns in Principles and Practice of Pediatric Surgery. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, pp 487–507

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  • Shields BJ et al., (2007) Healthcare resource utilization and epidemiology of pediatric burn-associated hospitalizations, United States, 2000. J Burn Care Res 2007, Nov–Dec

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  • Puri P, Höllwarth ME (eds) (2006) Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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  1. Department of Paediatric Surgery, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, B4 6NH, UK

    Jonathan Saul Karpelowsky & Heinz Rode

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  1. Children's Research Centre Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin 12, Ireland

    Prem Puri MS FRCS FRCS (Ed) FACS FAAP (Hon)

  2. Department of Paediatric Surgery, Medical University, Auenbruggerplatz 34, Graz, A-8036, Austria

    Michael Höllwarth MD

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Karpelowsky, J.S., Rode, H. (2009). Burns. In: Puri, P., Höllwarth, M. (eds) Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69560-8_19

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