Vacuum-assisted wound closure after resection of musculoskeletal tumors

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 441, Issue , 2005, Pages 346-350

  Bickels, Jacob ^a,d   Kollender, Yehuda ^a   Wittig, James C ^b   Cohen, Nir ^a   Meller, Isaac ^a   Malawer, Martin M ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN FOAM;

ADULT; AGED; BONE TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CLOSURE; ARTICLE; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURETTAGE; DEBRIDEMENT; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SARCOMA; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGERY; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; VACUUM CURETTAGE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33644792735     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000180450.21350.3e     Document Type: Review

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