The use of a dermal substitute and thin skin grafts in the cure of "complex" leg ulcers

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-200

  Canonico, Silvestro ^a,b   Campitiello, Ferdinando ^a   Della Corte, Angela ^a   Fattopace, Andrea ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b University Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; BODY SURFACE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMAL MATRIX; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXUDATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; LEG EDEMA; LEG PAIN; LEG ULCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58849118431     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2008.34409.x     Document Type: Article

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