The SNaP system: Biomechanical and animal model testing of a novel ultraportable negative-pressure wound therapy system

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1362-1371

  Fong, Kenton D ^b   Hu, Dean ^b   Eichstadt, Shaundra ^b   Gupta, Deepak M ^b   Pinto, Moshe ^b   Gurtner, Geoffrey C ^b   Longaker, Michael T ^b   Lorenz, H Peter ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GRANULATION TISSUE; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RAT; VACUUM; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GRANULATION TISSUE; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PRESSURE; RATS; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77951850375     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181d62b25     Document Type: Article

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