A randomized, prospective, controlled study of forearm donor site healing when using a vacuum dressing

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 174-178

  Chio, Eugene G ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEAD AND NECK MALFORMATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATIC PRESSURE DRESSING; SURGICAL WOUND; TENDON EXPOSURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

FEMALE; FOREARM; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 73949139200     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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