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Burns

Volume 45, Issue 6, September 2019, Pages 1485-1486
Burns

Letter to the Editor
The ideal wound dressing — Beyond the ideal: A short comment on ‘Properties of an ideal burn dressing: A survey of burn survivors and front-line burn healthcare providers’ by T. Carta, J.P. Gawaziuk et al

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