Does low output laser stimulation enhance the healing of crural ulceration? Some critical remarks

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 607-615

  Franek, Andrzej ^a   Król, Piotr ^a   Kucharzewski, Marek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Crural ulceration; Laser stimulation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; LASER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS; WOUND HEALING; LASER SURGERY; LEG COMPRESSION; LEG ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULCER HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANDAGES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUPPURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

LASER STIMULATION;

DRUG PRODUCTS; PATIENT MONITORING;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; COPPER SULFATE; ELASE; GENTAMICIN; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM;

EID: 0036837499     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(02)00112-1     Document Type: Article

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