The use of biosynthetic skin substitute (biobrane) for axillary reconstruction after surgical excision for hidradenitis suppurativa

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1385-1388

  Melkun, Edward T ^a,b   Few, Julius W ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University ^*

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOBRANE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; KELOID; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHOULDER; SKIN FLAP; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SUPPURATIVE HIDRADENITIS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AXILLA; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; FEMALE; HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA; HUMANS; MALE; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS;

EID: 16844368595     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000157013.40191.91     Document Type: Article

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