A 28-day study of the effect of coated VICRYL* plus antibacterial suture (coated polyglactin 910 suture with triclosan) on wound healing in guinea pig linear incisional skin wounds

Surgical Infections

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages

  Storch, Mark ^a   Perry, Larry C ^b   Davidson, Jeffrey M ^c   Ward, James J ^a  

^a ETHICON INC   (United States)

^b Pluris Research Inc   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; POLYGLACTIN; SUTURE MATERIAL; TRICLOSAN; XYLAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMPLANTATION; INCISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE REACTION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0036977170     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/10962960260496370     Document Type: Article

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