Vacuum-assisted closure in the treatment of a 9-year-old child with severe and multiple dog bite injuries of the thorax

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1409-1410

  Brown, Karen M ^a   Harper, Fiona V ^a   Aston, William J ^a   O'Keefe, Peter A ^a   Cameron, Charles Robert ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVICE; DOG BITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE DEVICE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; DEBRIDEMENT; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SUCTION; THORACIC INJURIES; VACUUM; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0034779277     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02844-2     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Vacuum assisted closure: A new method for wound control and treatment: Clinical experience
2. Vacuum assisted closure in the treatment of poststernotomy mediastinitis
3. Novel application of vacuum assisted closure technique to the treatment of sternotomy wound infection