ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 October 1974
Page Count: 7

Timing of Injury in Human Thermal Burns
Stahl, CJ
Chief, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, D.C.

Raasch, FO
Regional consultant in forensic pathology, U.S. Naval Hospital, Calif.

Hirvonen, JI
Professor of forensic medicine, University of Oulu,

(Received 5 November 1973; accepted 6 February 1974)

Abstract

How old is a burn? The answer is obviously important to the forensic pathologist. To provide some guidelines to the pathologist, this study of thermal burns delineates the histologic changes in a group of people who survived from a few hours to 15 days.

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Paper ID: JFS10461J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10461J
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