The effect of pentoxifylline on random-pattern skin-flap necrosis induced by nicotine treatment in the rat

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 66-71

  Aker, John S ^a   Mancoll, John ^a   Lewis, Brad ^a   Colen, Lawrence B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; PENTOXIFYLLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN FLAP; SKIN NECROSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; NECROSIS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0030981461     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199707000-00011     Document Type: Article

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