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- Title
[Wound healing complications in smokers, non-smokers and after abstinence from smoking].
- Authors
Goertz, O; Kapalschinski, N; Skorzinski, T; Kolbenschlag, J; Daigeler, A; Hirsch, T; Homann, H H; Muehlberger, T
- Abstract
The pulmonary and cardiovascular ramifications of smoking are well documented and this also applies to increased wound healing complications in smokers. The aim of this study was to ascertain whether preoperatively refraining from smoking would affect the incidence of wound healing disorders.
- Publication
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen, 2012, Vol 83, Issue 7, p652
- ISSN
1433-0385
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00104-011-2230-5