Atmospheric pressure plasma in dermatology: Ulcus treatment and much more

Clinical Plasma Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-29

  Emmert, Steffen ^a   Brehmer, Franziska ^a   Hänßle, Holger ^a   Helmke, Andreas ^b   Mertens, Nina ^b   Ahmed, Raees ^c   Simon, Dirk ^c   Wandke, Dirk ^d   Maus Friedrichs, Wolfgang ^e   Däschlein, Georg ^f   Schön, Michael P ^a   Viöl, Wolfgang ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HAWK UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Germany)

^c Institute for Applied Research and Clinical Studies (IFS GmbH)   (Germany)

^d CINOGY GMBH   (Germany)

^e CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^g FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SURFACE ENGINEERING AND THIN FILMS IST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic wounds; Cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAP); Electric current; Reactive gas species; Superinfected eczema; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA DEVICE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHRONIC WOUND; DERMATOLOGY; DEVICES; EFFLUENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; GAS FLOW; HYPERBARISM; HYPOBARISM; IONIZATION; JET INJECTION; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; ULCER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84878385398     PISSN: 22128166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpme.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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