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Occlusive dressing versus petroleum gauze on drainage wounds
B F Alsbjörn1, H Ovesen, S Walther-Larsen
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
Two different wound dressings were tested on human drainage wounds. Improved healing was observed under an occlusive, oxygen-impermeable hydrocolloid dressing compared with petroleum gauze. Infection tendency was not increased under the occlusive dressing.