Improvement in Wound Healing With Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Postoperative Total Hip Arthroplasty
Phase: NA
Conditions: Complications; Arthroplasty, Infection or Inflammation, Wound Complication
Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 
Improvement in Wound Healing with Negative Pressure Wound 
Therapy for Postoperative Total Hip Arthroplasty 
 
 
NCT number NCT02355691 
Document Date 09/18/2014 
Most recent IRB approval Date  
(for this document version) 01/21/2015 
 

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