Improved outcome of surgical flaps treated with topical dimethylsulfoxide

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 224, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 583-590

  Rand Luby, Leslie ^a   Pommier, Rodney F ^a   Williams, Shauna T ^a   Woltering, Eugene A ^a   Small, Karen A ^a   Fletcher, William S ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; ISCHEMIA; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN FLAP; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TISSUE NECROSIS; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROIN; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0029834314     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199610000-00016     Document Type: Article

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