The ideal split-thickness skin graft donor-site dressing: A clinical comparative trial of a modified polyurethane dressing and aquacel

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 918-924

  Dornseifer, Ulf ^a,b   Lonic, Daniel ^a,b   Gerstung, Tristan Ivo ^a,b   Herter, Frank ^a,b   Fichter, Andreas Max ^a,b   Holm, Charlotte ^a,b   Schuster, Tibor ^a,b   Ninkovic, Milomir ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; POLYURETHAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE SODIUM; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; POLYURETHANES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053028191     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182268c02     Document Type: Review

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