Noncontact ultrasound therapy for adjunctive treatment of nonhealing wounds: Retrospective analysis

Physical Therapy

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1517-1524

  Bell, Autumn L ^a   Cavorsi, Joseph ^b  

^a St Joseph Cancer Center   (United States)

^b St Joseph's Medical Center

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BURN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; DECUBITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONCONTACT ULTRASOUND THERAPY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RASH; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DISEASE; SPIDER BITE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; WOUND; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SKIN ULCER; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 57149092389     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20080009     Document Type: Article

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