The economic value of negative pressure wound therapy

Wounds

Volumn 17, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Niezgoda, Jeffrey A ^a   Page, Jeffrey C ^a   Kaplan, Mark ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ABDOMINAL INJURY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GANGRENE; HUMAN; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND DRESSING;

EID: 15944420867     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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