Current Problems in Surgery
Volume 44, Issue 11 , Pages 691-763 , November 2007

Optimizing Healing of the Acute Wound by Minimizing Complications

  • Michael G. Franz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • ,
  • David L. Steed, MD

      Affiliations

    • Professor of Surgery, Director of the Wound Healing/Limb Preservation Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • ,
  • Martin C. Robson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Founder, Institute for Tissue Regeneration, Repair, and Rehabilitation, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

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