Does the nicotine patch help in the postoperative period for arterial vessel repair?

Microsurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 179-181

  Battista, Vince ^a   Fanua, Sione P ^a   Shaw Wilgis, E F ^a,b  

^a Curtis National Hand Center   (United States)

^b UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE PATCH;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMORAL ARTERY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOKING; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMORAL ARTERY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 41449101671     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20476     Document Type: Article

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