Biomechanical characterization of vaginal versus abdominal surgical wound healing in the rabbit

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1472-1477

  Abramov, Yoram ^a   Webb, Antonio R ^b   Miller, Jay James R ^a   Alshahrour, Adeeb ^a   Botros, Sylvia M ^a   Goldberg, Roger P ^a   Ameer, Guillermo A ^b   Sand, Peter K ^a  

^a Evanston Continence Center   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal skin; Biomechanical properties; Surgical wound healing; Vagina

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURGICAL WOUND; TENSILE STRENGTH; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; RABBITS; SKIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646091737     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2006.01.063     Document Type: Article

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