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Significance of Postoperative Zincuria on Availability and Requirements During Tissue Repair

John H. Henzel, MD; Marion S. DeWeese, MD; Edgar L. Lichti, PhD

AMA Arch Surg. 1970;100(4):349-357.

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Zinc, a micronutrient essential to man, has been demonstrated to have a beneficial effect upon wound healing.¹ The historical aspects relating to the relationship which exists between this ion and tissue repair have been summarized elsewhere with the results of our own earlier clinical studies.² During recent years, investigators have documented that this element is essential for function of a number of clinically important biologic enzymes, and that the activity of certain of these zinc-dependent enzymes is altered during particular states of tissue destruction and repair.^3,4 It is of pertinent interest that a relative preponderance of total biologic zinc is concentrated within the skin and cutaneous structures, and that certain patients with problems in wound healing exhibit subnormal biologic zinc levels.^2,5 The question as to whether posttraumatic alterations of biologic zinc requirements and availability may be affected by urinary loss of this ion, particularly in relation . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Columbia, Mo

From the Department of Surgery, University of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia, Mo.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 30, 1969.

Read before the 77th annual meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Dallas, Nov 20, 1969.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, University of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia, Mo 65201 (Dr. DeWeese).

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