Refractory venous leg ulcers: A study of risk factors

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 512-519

  Chaby, Guillaume ^a   Viseux, Valérie ^a   Ramelet, Albert Adrien ^b   Ganry, Olivier ^a   Billet, Anne ^a   Lok, Catherine ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Private Dermatologic Clinic   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CHLORHEXIDINE; FRAGRANCE; LANOLIN; NEOMYCIN; ROSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BANDAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID DRESSING; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LEG COMPRESSION; LEG ULCER; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PATIENT MOBILITY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN GRAFT; SMOKING; SUPERINFECTION; THROMBOSIS; ULCER HEALING; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN LIGATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE ULCER;

EID: 33646073423     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32104.x     Document Type: Review

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