Effect of Acitretin on Wound Healing in Organ Transplant Recipients

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 667-673

  Tan, Stephen R ^a,c   Tope, Whitney D ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c University of Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; ETRETIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 1942540059     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2004.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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