Influence of adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen therapy on short-term complications during surgical reconstruction of upper and lower extremity war injuries: Retrospective cohort study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 224-232

  Roje, Zdravko ^a   Roje, Željka ^b   Eterović, Davor ^a   Družijanić, Nikica ^a   Petričević, Ante ^a   Roje, Tinka ^a   Ćapkun, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b University of Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT NECROSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; CROATIA; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 43449115410     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2008.2.224     Document Type: Article

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