Managing the patient with venous ulcers

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 326-334

  De Araujo, Tami ^b   Valencia, Isabel ^b   Federman, Daniel G ^b   Kirsner, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; DAFLON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; PENTOXIFYLLINE; STANOZOLOL; SULODEXIDE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION THERAPY; COST OF ILLNESS; DEBRIDEMENT; DECUBITUS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG ULCER; NAUSEA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN ULCER; ULCER; ULCER HEALING; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN SURGERY;

EID: 0037452526     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-138-4-200302180-00012     Document Type: Review

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