Management of a circumferential lower extremity degloving injury with the use of vacuum-assisted closure

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 628-630

  Wong, Lesley K ^a   Nesbit, Robert D ^a   Turner, Leslie A ^a   Sargent, Larry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Degloving injury; Split thickness skin graft; Vacuum assisted closure therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CASE REPORT; DEGLOVING INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT CONTRACTURE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCAR FORMATION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VACCUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; RAILROADS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33745698004     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000217111.35160.09     Document Type: Article

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