Carbon dioxide laser ablation with immediate autografting in a full- thickness porcine burn model

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 257-265

  Glatter, Robert D ^a,b   Goldberg, Julie S ^a,b   Schomacker, Kevin T ^a,b   Compton, Carolyn C ^a   Flotte, Thomas J ^a,b   Bua, Dominic P ^a,b   Greaves, Kenneth W ^a,b   Nishioka, Norman S ^a,b   Sheridan, Robert L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BURN; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRANULATION TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SKIN AUTOGRAFT; SWINE; THERMAL INJURY; TISSUE INJURY; VAPORIZATION;

ANIMALS; BURNS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LASER SURGERY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032471270     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199808000-00016     Document Type: Article

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