Self-treatment of full-thickness traumatic lip laceration with chicken egg shell membrane

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 230-231

  Zadik, Yehuda ^a,b  

^a Israel Defense Forces ^*  (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; EGG SHELL; HUMAN; LACERATION; LETTER; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER LIP; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 35148815591     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/06-WEME-LE-082R1.1     Document Type: Letter

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