Healing venous ulcers with different modalities of leg compression. Unexpected findings of a pilot study

Phlebologie

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 249-255

  Brizzio, E O ^a   Blättler, Werner ^b,d   Rossi, G ^a   Chirinos, A ^a   Cantero, I ^a   Idiazabal, G ^a   Amsler, F ^c  

^a Grupo Internacional de la Compresion   (Argentina)

^b Angio Bellaria   (Switzerland)

^c Amsler Consulting   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chronic venous insufficiency; Compression therapy; Medical compression stockings; Venous leg ulcers

Indexed keywords

BANDAGE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; ULCER HEALING; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; WOUND CARE;

EID: 33847416531     PISSN: 0939978X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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