Measurement of venous leg ulcers with a laser-based three-dimensional method: Comparison to computer planimetry with photography

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 767-771

  Kecelj Leskovec, Nada ^a   Jezeršek, Matija ^b   Možina, Janez ^b   Pavlović, Miloš D ^a   Lunder, Tomaž ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PLANIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG ULCER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34848898243     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2007.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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