Nutrition and wound healing

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 432-439

  Brown, Katherine L ^a   Phillips, Tania J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM EXTRACT; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; CALCIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; COPPER; IRON; NITROGEN; PROTEIN; PYCNOGENOL; RETINOL; RUTOSIDE; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN K GROUP; ZINC;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BODY MASS; BURN PATIENT; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; COPPER DEFICIENCY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DERMIS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY INTAKE; EPIDERMIS; FLUID BALANCE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY; LEG ULCER; MACRONUTRIENT; NITROGEN BALANCE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SELENIUM DEFICIENCY; TISSUE GROWTH; ULCER; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ZINC DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFECTS; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77954003121     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2010.03.028     Document Type: Article

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