New continuous negative-pressure and irrigation treatment for infected wounds and intractable ulcers

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1257-1265

  Kiyokawa, Kensuke ^a   Takahashi, Nagahiro ^a   Rikimaru, Hideaki ^a   Yamauchi, Toshihiko ^a   Inoue, Yojiro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN ULCER; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ABSCESS; DEBRIDEMENT; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; SKIN ULCER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34848820384     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000279332.27374.69     Document Type: Article

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