The use of AlloDerm on major burn patients: AlloDerm prevents post-burn joint contracture

Burns

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 322-328

  Yim, Haejun ^a   Cho, Yong Suk ^a   Seo, Cheong Hoon ^a   Lee, Boung Chul ^a   Ko, Jang Hyu ^a   Kim, Dohern ^a   Hur, Jun ^a   Chun, Wook ^a   Kim, Jong Hyun ^a  

^a Hallym University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

AlloDerm ; Joint contracture; Major burn

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; SURGICAL MESH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CONTRACTURE; JOINT FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANGE OF MOTION; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN GRAFT; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WATER LOSS; ADOLESCENT; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; BURNS; COMPLICATION; CONTRACTURE; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION STUDY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCAR; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; THERMOREGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CICATRIX; COLLAGEN; CONTRACTURE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EID: 77649336418     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.10.018     Document Type: Article

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