Vitamin E and wound healing

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1901-1902

  Havlik, Robert J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; COSMETIC; GLUCOCORTICOID; RETINOL;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATITIS; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL WOUND; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030667491     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199712000-00043     Document Type: Article

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