Improved healing of split thickness skin graft donor sites

Journal of Applied Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Atiyeh, Bishara S ^a   Al Amm, Christian A ^a   Nasser, Ali A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Epidermal dressing; Skin grafts; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013127568     PISSN: 1537064X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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