The optimal application of surgical adhesive tape strips

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 686-688

  Katz, Kenneth H ^a   Desciak, Edward B ^a   Maloney, Mary E ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUTURE MATERIAL; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

ADHESION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURFACE; SKINFOLD; SUTURING METHOD; WOUND HEALING;

ADHESIVENESS; BANDAGES; FOREARM; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SUTURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032867138     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.1999.99084.x     Document Type: Article

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