Coverage of exposed bones and joints in critically ill patients: Lower extremity salvage with topical negative pressure therapy

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 223-229

  Horch, Raymund E ^a,b   Dragu, Adrian ^a,b   Lang, Werner ^a,b   Banwell, Paul ^a,b   Leffler, Mareike ^a,b   Grimm, Andreas ^a,b   Bach, Alexander D ^a,b   Uder, Michael ^a,b   Kneser, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b QUEEN VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FIBULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GANGRENE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEG INJURY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEPSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TENDON LESION; TIBIA; TOPICAL NEGATIVE PRESSURE THERAPY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; CASE REPORT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; LEG ULCER; LIMB SALVAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG ULCER; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 58849151930     PISSN: 12034754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7750.2008.07073     Document Type: Article

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