Chronic ulcers and everyday living: Patients' perspective in the United Kingdom

Wounds

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 318-323

  Fagervik Morton, H ^a   Price, Patricia ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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