Injury
Volume 41, Issue 8 , Pages 780-786 , August 2010

Fix and flap in the era of vacuum suction devices: What do we know in terms of evidence based medicine?

  • James P. Stannard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Orthopaedic Division, Section of Orthopaedic Trauma, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri Hospital, One Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65212, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 510 South 20th Street, FOT 950, Birmingham, AL 35294-3409, United States. Tel.: +1 205 934 9545; fax: +1 205 975 2319.
    • ,
  • Naveen Singanamala

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Orthopaedic Division, Section of Orthopaedic Trauma, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
    • ,
  • David A. Volgas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Orthopaedic Division, Section of Orthopaedic Trauma, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

,Accepted 11 August 2009.

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☆ Research funding support for this project was provided by Kinetic Concepts Inc., San Antonio, TX.

PII: S0020-1383(09)00442-2

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.08.011

Injury
Volume 41, Issue 8 , Pages 780-786 , August 2010

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