title: The effects of smoking on the wound healing process.
abstract: Cigarette smoking is associated with delayed healing, wound infection and dehiscence. Smokers with wounds can avoid these risks if they refrain from smoking, even if only for a short-term period while the wound is healing.
authors.affiliation: Duke of Kent Plastic Surgery, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the National Blood Services Stem Cell Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK. jenniferkean@nhs.net
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kean
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence / Q000209:etiology; D014945:Wound Healing; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology