Negative-pressure wound therapy II: Negative-pressure wound therapy and increased perfusion. Just an illusion?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 601-612

  Kairinos, Nicolas ^a   Voogd, Anda M ^a   Botha, Pieter H ^a   Kotze, Tessa ^a   Kahn, Delawir ^a   Hudson, Donald A ^a   Solomons, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCINTISCANNING; SUCTION; TISSUE PERFUSION; TISSUE PRESSURE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND DRESSING; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; INJURY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; OXYGEN; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; SUCTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 61449123272     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318196b97b     Document Type: Article

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