A polyurethane dressing is beneficial for split-thickness skin-graft donor wound healing

Burns

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 447-451

  Akita, Sadanori ^a   Akino, Kozo ^a   Imaizumi, Toshifumi ^a   Tanaka, Katsumi ^a   Anraku, Kuniaki ^a   Yano, Hiroki ^a   Hirano, Akiyoshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Donor site; Quality of wound healing; Skin grafting

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; POLYURETHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DONOR; EPITHELIZATION; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMIDITY METER; HYDROGEL DRESSING; MALE; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN WATER LOSS; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; STRATUM CORNEUM; WATER CONTENT; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANDAGES, HYDROCOLLOID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; POLYURETHANES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646096234     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2005.11.015     Document Type: Article

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