Vacuum-assisted closure therapy for the treatment of skin and soft-tissue infections. Are wound specimens of use in planning secondary wound closure?;Vakuumtherapie bei Haut- und Weichgewebsinfektionen der Extremitäten. Nutzen des Wundabstrichs bei der Planung des sekundären Wundverschlusses?

Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 324-329

  Diefenbeck, M ^a   Mennenga, U ^b   Guckel P ^c   Tiemann, A H ^b   Muckley T ^a   Hofmann, G O ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b BG KLINIKEN BERGMANNSTROST   (Germany)

^c Exquit Software Solutions   (Germany)

Author keywords

serial debridements; skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI); vacuum assisted closure (VAC)

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BURSITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY; LEG INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM INJURIES; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BURSITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959879265     PISSN: 1864-669     EISSN: 18646743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1250694     Document Type: Article

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