Medical conditions associated with venous leg ulcers

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-273

  Margolis, D J ^a   Knauss, J ^a   Bilker, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Epidemiology; Retrospective study; Risk factors; Varicose ulcers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELLULITIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG DISEASE; LEG ULCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REGISTER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAMPLE; SENESCENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1542402180     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2004.05773.x     Document Type: Article

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