Chronic, nonhealing, lower extremity ulcers responsive to splenectomy in a patient with thalassemia major [6]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1734-1735

  Miles, Marshall G ^a   Murphy Jr , Robert X ^a  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUZYME; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; APLIGRAF; BECAPLERMIN; BETA GLOBIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; VALNOCTAMIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; BETA THALASSEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 11; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LEG ULCER; LETTER; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; ULCER HEALING; WOUND CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; SPLENECTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0642281552     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000084564.66841.5E     Document Type: Letter

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