Prospective randomized controlled trial: Fibrin sealant reduces split skin graft donor-site pain

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Healy, Ciaran ^a,b   Greig, Aina V H ^b   Murphy, Adrian D ^b   Powell, Christopher ^b   Pinder, Richard J ^b   Saour, Samer ^b   Abela, Christopher ^b   Knight, William ^b   Geh, Jenny L C ^b  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b not available

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANDAGES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; THIGH; TISSUE ADHESIVES; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879924857     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318299c6f4     Document Type: Article

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