Our experience with Wisebands: A new skin and soft-tissue stretch device

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 862-869

  Barnea, Yoav ^a,b,c   Gur, Eyal ^a,b   Amir, Aharon ^a,b   Leshem, David ^a,b   Zaretski, Arik ^a,b   Shafir, Raphael ^a,b   Weiss, Jerry ^a,b  

^a Tel Aviv University ^*

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN SURGERY; SOFT TISSUE STRETCH DEVICE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SUTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SUTURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 2542507445     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000105339.41838.D2     Document Type: Article

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