Survival of near fatal rhabdomyolysis following flame burn in a 25-year-old patient.

Burns

Burn Center, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Armed Force Tsoying Hospital, Kaohsiung City 813, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Published: August 2006

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