First experience with the use of vacuum assisted closure in the treatment of skin defects at the Burn Center

Acta Chirurgiae Plasticae

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-27

  Adámková, Monika ^a   Tymonova J ^a   Zamecnikova I ^a   Kadlcik M ^a   Klosova H ^a  

^a Traumacentrum FNsP   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Economic gain; Granulation; Infection; Subatmospheric pressure; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; NONHUMAN; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VARICOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BURNS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VACUUM; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 18144385854     PISSN: 00015423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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