The biosurgical wound debridement: Experimental investigation of efficiency and practicability

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 756-761

  Blake, Felix A S ^a   Abromeit, Norbert ^a   Bubenheim, Michael ^a   Li, Lei ^a   Schmelzle, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOBAG; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MAGGOT; MAGGOT THERAPY; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; GRANULATION TISSUE; LARVA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; SWINE; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34848923145     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2007.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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