An investigation into the conformability of wound dressings

Wounds UK

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 14-24

  Waring, Mike ^a   Butcher, Martyn ^b  

^a Devicemark Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b South West Wound Care Consultancy ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomical radii; Body contours; Conformability; Flexibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMFORTABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MATERIALS TESTING; PRODUCT PARAMETERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; WOUND DRESSING;

EID: 80054791888     PISSN: 17466814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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