Wound bed score and its correlation with healing of chronic wounds

Dermatologic Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 383-390

  Falanga, Vincent ^a,b   Saap, Liliana J ^a,d   Ozonoff, Alexander ^c  

^a ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Cosmetic Surgery Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioengineered skin; Prognosis; Skin equivalents; Wound; Wound bed preparation; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALLUS; COMPRESSION THERAPY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDEMA; EVALUATION; FIBROSIS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WOUND ASSESSMENT; WOUND BED SCORE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND FLUID; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANDAGES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLAGEN; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33845647258     PISSN: 13960296     EISSN: 15298019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8019.2006.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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