Histologic characterization of vaginal vs. abdominal surgical wound healing in a rabbit model

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-86

  Abramov, Yoram ^a,c   Golden, Barbara ^b   Sullivan, Megan ^b   Botros, Sylvia M ^b   Miller, Jay James R ^b   Alshahrour, Adeeb ^b   Goldberg, Roger P ^b   Sand, Peter K ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GASTRITIS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL WOUND; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; VAGINITIS; WOUND HEALING;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; RABBITS; SKIN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33846459028     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2006.00188.x     Document Type: Article

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