Our experience with a "Homemade" vacuum-assisted closure system

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 613-616

  Shalom, Avshalom ^a,b   Eran, Hadad ^a,b   Westreich, Melvyn ^a,b   Friedman, Tal ^a,b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cost effective; Dressing; Improvised; Negative pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; BANDAGE; COST; ECONOMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANDAGES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; SKIN ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 55249092467     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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