Journal Published Online: 01 October 1974
Volume 19, Issue 4

Timing of Injury in Human Thermal Burns

CODEN: JFSCAS

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.

Author Information

Raasch, FO
U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif.
Hirvonen, JI
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Stahl, CJ
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.
Pages: 7
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Stock #: JFS10461J
ISSN: 0022-1198
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10461J