Integra artificial skin® in use for full-thickness burn surgery: Benefits or harms on patient outcome

Technology and Health Care

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 463-468

  Fette, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a Children's Hospital of Lucerne   (Switzerland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COPOLYMER; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN;

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; AUTOGRAFT; BODY SURFACE; BURN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GUINEA PIG; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

CAVIA PORCELLUS;

EID: 33644589818     PISSN: 09287329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/thc-2005-13602     Document Type: Review

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