Vacuum-assisted closure: State of clinic art

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Argenta, Louis C ^a   Morykwas, Michael J ^a   Marks, Malcolm W ^a   DeFranzo, Anthony J ^a   Molnar, Joseph A ^a   David, Lisa R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ARTICLE; BURN; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE; DIABETIC FOOT; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FOAM DRESSING; GRANULATION TISSUE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION; ABDOMINAL WALL; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; BANDAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; INJURY; INTESTINE FISTULA; LIMB; MEDIASTINITIS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STERNUM; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; VACUUM;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ACUTE DISEASE; BANDAGES; BURNS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETIC FOOT; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; MEDIASTINITIS; PERINEUM; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; STERNUM; SURGICAL MESH; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33745488493     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000222551.10793.51     Document Type: Article

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