Evaluation of healing and antimicrobiological effects of herbal therapy on venous leg ulcer: Pilot study

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 277-282

  Binić, Ivana ^a   Janković, Aleksandar ^a   Janković, Dimitrije ^b   Janković, Irena ^a   Vručinić, Zoran ^c  

^a Clinical Center Ni   (Serbia)

^b University of Kragujevac Medical Faculty   (Serbia)

^c Clinical Center of Banja Luka   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Antibacterial effects; Healing; Herbal therapy; Venous leg ulcer

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FITOVEN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANTODERM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN FLORA; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCER HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PILOT PROJECTS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 75849148639     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2931     Document Type: Article

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