Wound coverage using modified tissue expansion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 377-384

  Concannon, Matthew J ^a,b,c   Puckett, Charles L ^a,b,c  

^a University of Missouri Columbia ^*

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN EXPANSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TRUNK; VISCOELASTICITY; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION STUMPS; ARM INJURIES; DISARTICULATION; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0031814683     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199808000-00012     Document Type: Article

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