Surgical treatment of pressure ulcers: An 11-year experience at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of Hospital of Kaunas University of Medicine;Chirurginis pragulų gydymas (11-kos metų patirtis Kauno medicinos universiteto klinikų Plastinės ir rekonstrukcinės chirurgijos klinikoje)

Medicina

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 269-275

  Maslauskas, Kestutis ^a   Samsanavičius, Donatas ^a   Rimdeika, Rytis ^a   Kaikaris, Vygintas ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Fasciocutaneous flaps; Myocutaneous flaps; Pressure ulcers

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECUBITUS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; PRESSURE ULCER; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66849118705     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina45040035     Document Type: Article

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