Comparative healing of surgical incisions created by a standard "bovie," The Utah Medical Epitome Electrode, and a bard-parker cold scalpel blade in a porcine model: A pilot study

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 635-645

  Vore, Stephen J ^a,b   Wooden, William A ^b   Bradfield, John F ^a   Dale Aycock, E ^a   Vore, Patty L ^b   Lalikos, Janice F ^b   Hudson, Suzanne S ^c  

^a Department of Comparative Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSURGERY; INCISION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALPEL; SKIN INCISION; SUTURE; SWINE; TISSUE NECROSIS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0036896889     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-200212000-00014     Document Type: Article

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