Evaluation of fibrin sealants in cutaneous wound closure

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-321

  Scardino, M Stacie ^a   Swaim, Steven F ^a   Morse, Brenda S ^b   Sartin, Eva A ^a   Wright, James C ^a   Hoffman, Charles E ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CryoLife Inc   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Bovine fibrin sealant; Fibrinogen thrombin mixtures; Human fibrin sealant; Wound closure

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; BIOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD; CELLS; DISEASES; ENZYMES; LASER APPLICATIONS; PLANIMETERS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE;

BOVINE FIBRIN SEALANTS; CHRONIC ACTIVE INFLAMMATION; FIBRINOGEN THROMBIN MIXTURES; HEALING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN FIBRIN SEALANTS; LASER DOPPLER PERFUSION IMAGING; PLANIMETRY; WOUND CLOSURE;

PROTEINS;

FIBRIN GLUE; FIBRINOGEN; THROMBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; DOG; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SKIN INJURY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CATTLE; DOGS; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HUMANS; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033014325     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(1999)48:3<315::AID-JBM16>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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