The improvised atraumatic suture: A cost-reducing technique, not only for the tropics?

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 166-167

  Freudenberg, S ^a   Samel, S ^a   Sturm, J ^a   Trede, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INJECTION; NEEDLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0034968675     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947550103100318     Document Type: Article

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