Split-skin grafting from the scalp: The hidden advantage

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1873-1879

  Weyandt, Gerhard H ^a   Bauer, Boris ^a   Berens, Nikolaus ^a   Hamm, Henning ^a   Broecker, Eva B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SAFETY; SCALP; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN SURGERY; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; STEM CELL; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCALP; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 72349095257     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01308.x     Document Type: Article

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