Some factors affecting skin and wound healing...This article first appeared in Bedsore Biomechanics and is reproduced by kind permission of Palgrave macmillan, Macmillan Publishers Ltd
The domestic pig is the preferred animal for studying the effects of environmental factors on skin and wound because its integument is more like that of man than any other. The three factors that most drastically affect the pattern, speed and quality of healing are dehydration of exposed tissues, th...
| Published in: | Journal of Tissue Viability Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 20 - 24 |
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| Format: | pictorial review Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
2006 May
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