The use of vacuum assisted closure (VAC™) in soft tissue injuries after high energy pelvic trauma

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 392, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 601-609

  Labler, Ludwig ^a   Trentz, Otmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Open fractures; Pelvis; Soft tissue defect; Vacuum assisted closure; Wound conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HEMIPELVECTOMY; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; INJURY SEVERITY; LAVAGE; LEG AMPUTATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, OPEN; HEMIPELVECTOMY; HUMANS; ILIUM; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PELVIC BONES; PELVIS; PERINEUM; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACROILIAC JOINT; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 34547851608     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-006-0090-0     Document Type: Article

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