The Role of Silver in Wound Healing. Part 1 : Effects of Silver on Wound Management

Wounds

Volumn 13, Issue 1 SUPPL. A, 2001, Pages

  Demling, Robert H ^a   DeSanti, Leslie ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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