The use of negative pressure wound therapy for random local flaps at the ankle region

Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 513-516

  Goldstein, Jesse A ^a   Iorio, Matthew L ^a   Brown, Benjamin ^a   Attinger, Christopher E ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lower extremity; Negative pressure wound therapy; Plastic surgery; Reconstruction; Wound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE INJURY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOM LOCAL FLAPS; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, ANKLE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77958480780     PISSN: 10672516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jfas.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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