Burns
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 305-311 , May 2006

Skin graft fixation by slow clotting fibrin sealant applied as a thin layer

  • Rainer Mittermayr

      Affiliations

    • Research Center of the AUVA, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Donaueschingenstrasse 13, 1200 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 33110 464; fax: +43 1 33110 460.
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  • Esther Wassermann

      Affiliations

    • Research Center of the AUVA, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Donaueschingenstrasse 13, 1200 Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Martin Thurnher

      Affiliations

    • Research Center of the AUVA, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Donaueschingenstrasse 13, 1200 Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Manuela Simunek

      Affiliations

    • Baxter AG, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Heinz Redl

      Affiliations

    • Research Center of the AUVA, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Donaueschingenstrasse 13, 1200 Vienna, Austria

,Accepted 6 October 2005.

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PII: S0305-4179(05)00293-7

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2005.10.010

Burns
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 305-311 , May 2006

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