Octylcyanoacrylate for the treatment of contaminated partial-thickness burns in swine: A randomized controlled experiment

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 222-227

  Singer, Adam J ^a,c   Mohammad, Mazhar ^a   Tortora, George ^a   Thode Jr , Henry C ^a   Mcclain, Steve A ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; Burns; Healing; Infection; Octylcyanoacrylate; Partial thickness; Re epithelialization; Silver sulfadiazine; Skin; Tissue adhesives

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLIC ACID OCTYL ESTER; POLYURETHAN; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURN; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWINE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0034008739     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb01063.x     Document Type: Article

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