The use of artificial dermis in the reconstruction of oncologic surgical defects

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 638-646

  Tufaro, Anthony P ^a   Buck, Donald W ^a   Fischer, Anne C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MORBIDITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; THORAX WALL TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 34547879269     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000270298.68331.8a     Document Type: Article

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