Pressure transduction to the thoracic cavity during topical negative pressure therapy of a sternotomy wound

International Wound Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 579-584

  Torbrand, Christian ^a   Ingemansson, Richard ^a   Gustafsson, Lotta ^a   Paulsson, Per ^a   Malmsjö, Malin ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Experimental surgery; Mediastinal infection; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDIASTINITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND; SWINE; THORACIC CAVITY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART VENTRICLES; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIASTINITIS; MICROCIRCULATION; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; STERNUM; SWINE; THORACIC CAVITY; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 54249098719     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2007.00425.x     Document Type: Article

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