Improving cutaneous scar formation by controlling the mechanical environment: Large animal and phase i studies

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-225

  Gurtner, Geoffrey C ^a   Dauskardt, Reinhold H ^b   Wong, Victor W ^a   Bhatt, Kirit A ^a   Wu, Kenneth ^b   Vial, Ivan N ^a   Padois, Karine ^b   Korman, Joshua M ^a,c,d   Longaker, Michael T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Korman Group   (United States)

^d EL CAMINO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CANCER GROWTH FACTOR; CD31 ANTIGEN; POLITEF;

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; FEMALE; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCISION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN INCISION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN SCAR; SWINE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ANIMALS; BANDAGES; BIOMECHANICS; CICATRIX; CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; SKIN; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SWINE; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961022878     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318220b159     Document Type: Article

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