Wet-to-dry gauze dressings: Fact and fiction

Wounds

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 56-62

  Armstrong, Margaret Heale ^a,c   Price, Patricia ^b  

^a Springfield Hospital   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United States)

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ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; STOMA; SURGEON; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 1542516315     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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