Improved Scar Quality Following Primary and Secondary Healing of Cutaneous Wounds

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 411-417

  Atiyeh, Bishara S ^a,b   Amm, Christian A ^a   El Musa, Kusai A ^a  

^a American University of Beirut ^*

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYURETHAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOISTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN INJURY; SKIN SCAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; OINTMENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SITOSTEROLS; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUTURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 1642418379     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-003-3049-3     Document Type: Article

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