Healing characteristics of a new silver-coated, gelatine impregnated vascular prosthesis in the porcine model

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-76

  Ueberrueck, Torsten ^a,b   Meyer, L ^b   Zippel, R ^c   Nestler, G ^d   Wahlers, T ^a   Gastinger, I ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Carl Thiem Hospital   (Germany)

^c Krankenhaus Riesa   (Germany)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Healing characteristics; Metallic silver coated vascular prostheses; Polyester vascular prostheses

Indexed keywords

GELATIN; SILVER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEALING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTIMA; MATERIAL COATING; NONHUMAN; PROSTHESIS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; GELATIN; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; POLYESTERS; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SILVER; SWINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 14744300468     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-836244     Document Type: Article

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