Maggot versus conservative debridement therapy for the treatment of pressure ulcers

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 208-214

  Sherman, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; FLY; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SKIN ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0036630215     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475X.2002.10403.x     Document Type: Article

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