Aplasia cutis congenita with calvarial defects: A simplified management strategy using acellular dermal matrix

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1224-1229

  Smartt Jr , James M ^b   Kim, Elizabeth M ^b   Tobias, Adam M ^b   Yan, Albert C ^b   Kirschner, Richard E ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ABDOMEN; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; BONE REGENERATION; BUTTOCK; CALVARIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GAUZE DRESSING; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OINTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER IMPREGNATION; SKIN APLASIA; SKIN DEFECT; SKULL DEFECT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UMBILICUS; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKULL;

ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKULL;

EID: 42949144130     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000302588.95409.fe     Document Type: Article

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