Combination treatment with basic fibroblast growth factor and artificial dermis improves complex wounds in patients with a history of long-term systemic corticosteroid use

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1422-1425

  Fujioka, Masaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; RECOMBINANT BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; COLLAGEN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT RHEUMATIOD ARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN GRAFT; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; VASCULAR DISEASE; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 69949170595     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01251.x     Document Type: Article

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