Wound shape geometry measurements correlate to eventual wound healing

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-178

  Cardinal, Matthew ^a,b   Eisenbud, David E ^b   Armstrong, David G ^c  

^a Advanced Bio Healing Inc   (United States)

^b Clinical Department   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIUM; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WOUND ASSESSMENT; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 62449227763     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2009.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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