Painful leg ulcers: A misdiagnosed case report with literature review

Wounds

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Yong Ming ^b   Zhao, Wen Jun ^b   Zheng, Yong Hua ^b   Fan, Bo Guang ^a  

^a TAIZHOU HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG PROVINCE   (China)

^b NONE

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