Comparison of effects of suture materials on wound healing in a rabbit pyeloplasty model

Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-264

  Wainstein, Mark ^b   Anderson, James ^b   Elder, Jack S ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE; CHROMIC CATGUT; POLYDIOXANONE; POLYGLACTIN; SUTURE MATERIAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROSIS; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOPLASTY; RABBIT; SCAR FORMATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CATGUT; DIOXANES; KIDNEY PELVIS; POLYDIOXANONE; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMERS; RABBITS; SUTURES; UROTHELIUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031034327     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00440-2     Document Type: Article

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