An analysis of the effectiveness of skin grafting to treat chronic venous leg ulcers

Wounds

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Jankunas, Vytautas ^a   Bagdonas, Rokas ^b   Samsanavicius, Donatas ^b   Rimdeika, Rytis ^b  

^a Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery   (Lithuania)

^b NONE

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