The influence of local versus global heat on the healing of chronic wounds in patients with diabetes

Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 535-544

  Petrofsky, Jerrold S ^a   Lawson, Daryl ^b   Suh, Hye Jin ^a   Rossi, Christine ^c   Zapata, Karina ^c   Broadwell, Erin ^c   Littleton, Lindsay ^c  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER HEALING; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC FOOT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEAT; HEATING; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 36348953900     PISSN: 15209156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dia.2007.0231     Document Type: Article

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