Traditional approaches to wound healing

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-98

  Bodeker, Gerard C ^a   Ryan, Terence J ^a   Ong, Chi Keong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; WOUND HEALING PROMOTING AGENT;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032725589     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-081X(98)00056-X     Document Type: Review

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