Negative pressure dressings: An alternative to free tissue transfers?

Wounds

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 206-212

  Datiashvili, Ramazi O ^a   Knox, Kevin R ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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