Gangrene with a novel negative pressure wound therapy system

Wounds

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 342-349

  Verbelen, Jozef ^a   Hoeksema, Henk ^a   Heyneman, Alexander ^a   Pirayesh, Ali ^a   Monstrey, Stan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

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