Promising results after vacuum-assisted wound closure and mesh-mediated fascial traction

Danish Medical Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Kleif, Jakob ^a   Fabricius, Rasmus ^a   Bertelsen, Claus Anders ^a   Bruun, Jens ^a   Gögenur, Ismail ^a  

^a HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPEN ABDOMEN; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MESH; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; ABDOMEN; FASCIA; MIDDLE AGED; TRACTION THERAPY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABDOMEN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TRACTION;

EID: 84873243879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22451919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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