The hand is positioned in a functional position. Delayed, or secondary, wound closure is often appropriate and diminishes the size of the skin defect that requires split-thickness skin graft (Fig 3).

If primary closure of the entire wound is not possible, decreasing the size of the wound followed by a combination of primary and secondary closure can also be an acceptable option. Primary closure ...

5 Endovenous closure of refluxing truncal veins have decreased healing times and recurrence, thus mitigating the high health care costs associated with chronic wound care. 6 The VenaSeal closure ...

At the second log-on the user was asked to record the timing of wound closure, then the allocation was disclosed. The full protocol is published elsewhere.16 The randomisation scheme was stratified by ...

The researchers found that the beneficial bacterium can promote skin cell movements that are essential for wound closure by ...

However, location and wound closure met criteria for entry into the model having ... Conclusions Puncture wounds or wounds closed during treatment are dog bite wounds at a high risk of infection and ...

Using this technique, we were able to achieve delayed primary wound closure of a grade 4 open abdomen complicated ... a super morbidly obese patient with a grade 4 open abdomen (OA), complicated by a ...