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Table 4 Summary of literature to date

From: A prospective study of time to healing and hypertrophic scarring in paediatric burns: every day counts

Study

Rate of HTS

Notes/study size

Deitch, 1983 [4]

38% overall

100 patients, adults and children

Spurr and Shakespeare, 1990 [18]

>50% average

Children aged under 5

Zeitlin et al., 1997 [19]

30% overall

91 children, long-term results

Dedovic et al., 1999 [20]

>32% average

779 children, retrospective review of notes

Bombaro et al., 2003 [9]

67% overall

110 major burn survivors

Cubison et al., 2006 [5]

35% overall

337 paediatric scalds

Gangemi et al., 2008 [13]

44% overall

703 adult patients

Chipp et al., current study

17% overall

383 paediatric burns, non-operative treatment