Conservative surgical debridement as a burn treatment: Supporting evidence from a porcine burn model

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 774-783

  Wang, Xue Qing ^a   Kempf, Margit ^a   Liu, Pei Yun ^a   Cuttle, Leila ^a   Chang, Hong En ^a   Kravchuk, Olena ^a   Mill, Julie ^a   Phillips, Gael E ^b   Kimble, Roy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GAUZE DRESSING; GEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BANDAGES; BURNS; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; SWINE;

EID: 54949092791     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2008.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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