Compression therapy in venous leg ulcers

Leg Ulcers 3Ed: Diagnosis and management

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 109-115

  Partsch, Hugo ^a  

^a WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

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