Impact of injection drug use on distribution and severity of chronic venous disorders

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-491

  Pieper, Barbara ^a   Templin, Thomas N ^a   Kirsner, Robert S ^b   Birk, Thomas J ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG; METHADONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LEG; LEG COMPRESSION; LEG EDEMA; LEG ULCER; LIPODERMATOSCLEROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCAR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TELANGIECTASIA; ULCER HEALING; VARICOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 67651165376     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2009.00513.x     Document Type: Article

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