Octylcyanoacrylate tissue adhesive versus suture wound repair in a contaminated wound model

Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-72

  Quinn, Jim ^a   Maw, Jennifer ^b   Ramotar, Karam ^b   Wenckebach, Georg ^b   Wells, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLATE; CYANOACRYLIC ACID OCTYL ESTER; TISSUE ADHESIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUTURE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0030835546     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(97)90266-X     Document Type: Article

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