Infected venous leg ulcers: Management with silver-releasing foam dressing

Wounds

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-8

  Dimakakos, Evangelos P ^a   Katsenis, K ^b   Kalemikerakis, J ^b   Arkadopoulos, N ^b   Mylonas, S ^b   Arapoglou, V ^b   Tsiganis, T ^b   Kotis, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE

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EID: 59249094539     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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