Ice Application to Minimize Pain in the Split-Thickness Skin Graft Donor Site

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 305-307

  Akan, Mithat ^a   Misirlioǧlu, Aykut ^a   Yildirim, Serkan ^a   Çakir, Bariş ^a   Taylan, Gaye ^a   Aköz, Tayfun ^a  

^a Gömeç Sok Sababci II ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Donor site; Ice; Pain; Skin graft

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYOANESTHESIA; DONOR SITE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION PREVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; THIGH; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND DRESSING;

DENERVATION; HUMANS; ICE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0347915704     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-003-3014-1     Document Type: Article

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