Effect of photodynamic therapy on the healing of a rat skin flap and its implication for head and neck reconstructive surgery

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 397-405

  Kübler, Alexander ^a   Finley III, Robert K ^b   Born, I Antonio ^a   Mang, Thomas S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b St Elizabeth's Reg Cancer Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

flap; PDT; photodynamic therapy; tensile strength; wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN FLAP; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; HEMATOPORPHYRIN PHOTORADIATION; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0029984621     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)18:4<397::AID-LSM9>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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