The effect of topical mitomycin C on full-thickness burns

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 879-886

  Tennyson, Heath ^b   Helling, Eric R ^a   Wiseman, Joseph ^b   Dick, Edward ^b   Lyons, Robert C ^b  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; BURN CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HEALING; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCAR; SCORING SYSTEM; SWINE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CHLORHEXIDINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISINFECTANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; MITOMYCIN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SKIN; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34548414121     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000277666.07097.55     Document Type: Article

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