Initial experience with a technique for wound closure after cardiac device implantation designed to reduce infection and minimize tissue scar formation

American Journal of Therapeutics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 88-91

  Grubb, Blair P ^a   Welch, Marlene ^b   Karabin, Beverly ^a   Foster, Warren ^a   Zhang, Dong ^c   Kanjwal, Khalil ^a  

^a Electrophysiology Section   (United States)

^b Division of Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac pacemaker; defibrilators; infection; wound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICES; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERATOR; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CICATRIX; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84858798140     PISSN: 10752765     EISSN: 15363686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MJT.0b013e3181ebd344     Document Type: Article

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