Comparison of vacuum and conventional wound dressings for full thickness skin grafts in the minipig model

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 699-704

  Becker, S T ^a   Rennekampff, H O ^b   Alkatout, I ^a   Wiltfang, J ^a   Terheyden, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c Rotes Kreuz Krankenhaus Kassel   (Germany)

Author keywords

dressing; full thickness skin graft; minipig

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPECTROSCOPY; VACUUM; WOUND DRESSING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; BANDAGES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRANULOCYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LYMPHOCYTES; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; TIME FACTORS; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77953616618     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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