Combination of rat vest, teeth shortening, and nail cutting to prevent autocannibalization and protect surgical flaps [26]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1671-

  Özkan, Ömer ^a,b   Özgentas, H Ege ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; INCISOR; LETTER; NAIL; NONHUMAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT STRAIN; STRESS; WOUND ASSESSMENT; ANIMAL; AUTOMUTILATION; HOOF AND CLAW; RAT; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; HOOF AND CLAW; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RATS; SELF MUTILATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOOTH;

EID: 33646832880     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000208874.61037.2b     Document Type: Letter

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