An alternative method to minimize pain in the split-thickness skin graft donor site

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2243-2249

  Akan, Mithat ^a   Yildirim, Serkan ^a   Misirlioǧlu, Aykut ^a   Ulusoy, Gürhan ^a   Aköz, Tayfun ^a   Avci, Gülden ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SULTAMICILLIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FRIEDMAN TEST; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HEALING; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 0037981650     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000060087.93322.2F     Document Type: Article

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