Clinical approach to atypical wounds with a new model for understanding hypertensive ulcers

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1026-1029

  Shelling, Michael L ^a   Federman, Daniel G ^b   Kirsner, Robert S ^a  

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

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY; CALCINOSIS; FUNDING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; SKIN ULCER; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; WOUND CARE; ARTERIOLOSCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; LEG ULCER; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WOUND HEALING;

ARTERIOLOSCLEROSIS; CALCIPHYLAXIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEG ULCER; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77957142089     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.213     Document Type: Note

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