Pregnancy is not a useful tissue expander in patients with an open abdomen: A case report

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 881-883

  Giuffrida, A Ylenia ^a   Lavery, Robert F ^a   Livingston, David H ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LAPAROTOMY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ABDOMINAL WALL; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7244253292     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000048210.94899.05     Document Type: Article

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