Treatment of periprosthetic soft tissue infection of the groin following vascular surgical procedures by means of a polyvinyl alcohol-vacuum sponge system

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 104-109

  Pinocy, Jürgen ^a   Albes, Johannes M ^a   Wicke, Corinna ^a   Ruck, Peter ^a   Ziemer, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM; VACUUM SPONGE SYSTEM; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; GROIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SUCTION; SURGICAL SPONGES; VACUUM;

EID: 0346997034     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475X.2003.11205.x     Document Type: Article

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