Evaluation of pressure ulcers in 202 patients with cancerâ "do patients with cancer tend to develop pressure ulcers? Once developed, are they difficult to heal?

Wounds

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-19

  Masaki, Fujioka ^a   Riko, Kitamura ^b   Seiji, Houbara ^b   Shuhei, Yoshida ^b   Aya, Yakabe ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autolytic debridement; Compression stockings; Delayed wound healing; Diabetic foot wounds; Impaired wound healing; Mechanical debridement; Pressure dressing; Surgical debridement; Wound fibroblasts; Wound necrosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846805996     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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