Hand knife versus powered dermatome: Current opinions, practices, and evidence

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-79

  Tehrani, Hamid ^a,b   Lindford, Andrew ^a   Logan, Andrew M ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL PRESTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dermatome; Donor site; Hand knife; Litigation; Medicolegal; Split skin graft

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAW SUIT; PLASTIC SURGERY; POWERED DERMATOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCALPEL; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGEON; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33745621342     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000214902.79193.4e     Document Type: Article

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