Serum and drainage fluid vascular endothelial growth factor levels in early surgical wounds

European Surgical Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 492-496

  Karayiannakis, A J ^a   Zbar, A ^b   Polychronidis, A ^a   Simopoulos, C ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Serum; Vascular endothelial growth factor; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL WOUND; SUTURE; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITIC FLUID; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0242320210     PISSN: 0014312X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073388     Document Type: Article

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