The use of full-thickness skin grafts for the skin-abutment interface around bone-anchored hearing aids

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 255-258

  Snyder, Mary C ^a,b   Moore, Gary F ^a   Johnson, Perry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 981225 Nebraska Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bone anchored hearing aid; Percutaneous implant; Skin graft

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TITANIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEARING AID; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MASTOIDITIS; OTITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIN FLAP; SMOKING; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL BONE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSEOINTEGRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 0037341280     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200303000-00020     Document Type: Article

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