Subatmospheric pressure dressing as a bridge to free tissue transfer in the treatment of open tibia fractures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1664-1673

  Rinker, Brian ^a,b   Amspacher, Jonathan C ^a   Wilson, Patrick C ^a   Vasconez, Henry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CELLULITIS; CHILD; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SKIN ABSCESS; TIBIA FRACTURE; WOUND DRESSING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANKLE INJURIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43149107437     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31816a8d9d     Document Type: Article

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