Effect of negative pressure wound therapy on wound healing

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 301-331

  Huang, Chenyu ^a   Leavitt, Tripp ^a   Bayer, Lauren R ^a   Orgill, Dennis P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARGININE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; DOXYCYCLINE; EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; INTERLEUKIN 8; LACTOFERRIN; PHENYTOIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; POLYETHERURETHAN; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; POVIDONE IODINE; TOPICAL AGENT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; DECUBITUS; DERMATITIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOAM DRESSING; GASTROSCHISIS; GENERAL DEVICE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MACRODEFORMATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEDIASTINITIS; MICRODEFORMATION; NONHUMAN; OMPHALOCELE; OPEN FRACTURE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN ULCER; SUCTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL DRAPE; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE DEVICE; WOUND; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND ODOR;

BANDAGES; BIOFILMS; CELL- AND TISSUE-BASED THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; SUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84902366677     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: 15356337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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