The modified Meek technique as a novel method for skin grafting in horses: Evaluation of acceptance, wound contraction and closure in chronic wounds

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-329

  Wilmink, J M ^a   Van Den Boom, R ^b   Van Weeren, P R ^b   Barneveld, A ^b  

^a Woumarec   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contraction; Epithelialisation; Horse; Limb wound; Skin graft

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HORSE; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TIME; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HORSES; MALE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL MESH; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33747788709     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: 04251644     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2746/042516406777749290     Document Type: Article

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