Wound Healing Society (WHS) venous ulcer treatment guidelines: What's new in five years?

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 619-637

  Tang, Jennifer C ^a   Marston, William A ^b   Kirsner, Robert S ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERICIDE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CADEXOMER IODINE; CLINDAMYCIN; COLLAGENASE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; ILOPROST; PAPAIN; PENTOXIFYLLINE; SILVER; UREA;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; CELLULITIS; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; COMPRESSION GARMENT; COMPRESSION THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EMBASE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICE; LASER SURGERY; LEG COMPRESSION; LEG ULCER; LIPODERMATOSCLEROSIS; LONG TERM CARE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAGGOT THERAPY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SKIN GRAFT; SUBFASCIAL ENDOSCOPIC PERFORATOR SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TISSUE NECROSIS; ULCER; ULCER HEALING; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VEIN SURGERY; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; VARICOSE ULCER; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84866493165     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2012.00815.x     Document Type: Review

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