An experimental study: Does topically applied sildenafil citrate (Sildegra®) have an effect on the preservation of the viability of the graft in full-thickness tubed free skin grafts?

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 343-348

  Ayyildiz, Ali ^a,b   Akgül, K Turgay ^a   Nuhoǧlu, Bariş ^a   Huri, Emre ^a   Çaydere, Muzaffer ^a   Üstün, Hüseyin ^a   Germiyanoǧlu, Cankon ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Free tube; Full thickness graft; Sildenafil citrate; Viability

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HISTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; TISSUE;

GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; SKIN GRAFTS; VIABILITY;

DERMATOLOGY;

SILDEGRA; SILDENAFIL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; XYLENE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING APPARATUS; FIBROBLAST; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; FREE SKIN GRAFT; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; TISSUE NECROSIS;

EID: 33845686719     PISSN: 13000144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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