Comparison of topical iodine and silver sulfadiazine as therapies against sulfur mustard burns in a pig model

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 916-921

  Margulis, Alexander ^a   Chaouat, Malka ^a   Ben Bassat, Hannah ^a   Eldad, Arieh ^a   Icekson, Michael ^a   Breiterman, Semion ^a   Neuman, Rami ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; MUSTARD GAS; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FORMULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IODINE; MUSTARD GAS; SILVER SULFADIAZINE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 36248998154     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2007.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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