Treatment of soft tissue defects in pediatric patients using the V.A.C.(TM) system

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 376, Issue , 2000, Pages 26-31

  Mooney III, James F ^a,c   Argenta, Louis C ^b   Marks, Malcolm W ^b   Morykwas, Michael J ^b   DeFranzo, Anthony J ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND CARE;

EID: 0033932201     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200007000-00005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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