Does treatment of split-thickness skin grafts with negative-pressure wound therapy improve tissue markers of wound healing in a porcine experimental model?

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 447-451

  Ward, Christopher ^a   Ciraulo, David ^a   Coulter, Michael ^c   Desjardins, Steven ^a   Liaw, Lucy ^b   Peterson, Sarah ^b  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Negative pressure wound therapy; split thickness skin graft

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SWINE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BANDAGES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84864575118     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31825aa9ea     Document Type: Article

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