Use of negative-pressure dressings and split-thickness skin grafts following penile shaft reduction and reduction scrotoplasty in the management of penoscrotal elephantiasis

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 649-653

  Stokes, Tracey H ^a   Follmar, Keith E ^b   Silverstein, Ari D ^a   Weizer, Alon Z ^a   Donatucci, Craig F ^a   Anderson, Everett E ^a   Erdmann, Detlev ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elephantiasis; Penile reconstruction; Penoscrotal lymphedema; Split thickness skin graft; Vacuum assisted closure dressing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELEPHANTIASIS; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; PENILE SHAFT REDUCTION; PENIS DISEASE; PENOSCROTAL ELEPHANTIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION SCROTOPLASTY; SAFETY; SCROTUM DISORDER; SELF INJECTION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND DRESSING;

BANDAGES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELEPHANTIASIS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE DISEASES; PENIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESSURE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SCROTUM; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VACUUM;

EID: 33744811396     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000202826.61782.c9     Document Type: Article

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