The breakdown of skin microcirculation is assumed to play a key role in the pathophysiology after burn injury. The aim of the present study was to develop a burn model, which allows repetitive quantitative in vivo analysis of the microcirculation after a burn injury, focusing on the interaction between leukocytes and the endothelium.
Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Burn Center, Ruhr-University Bochum, Buerkle-de-la-Camp Platz 1, D-44789 Bochum, Germany. stefan.langer@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
