Does continuous negative-pressure and irrigation treatment really rinse the whole closed wound?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 319-320

  Lee, Su Shin ^a   Chang, Kao Ping ^b   Lai, Chung Sheng ^b   Lin, Sin Daw ^b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

DEBRIDEMENT; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SUCTION DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION; LAVAGE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; ULCER;

HUMANS; IRRIGATION; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; ULCER; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 48049112039     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817747ea     Document Type: Letter

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