Chronic venous leg ulcer treatment: Future research needs

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-42

  Lazarus, Gerald ^a   Valle, M Fran ^b   Malas, Mahmoud ^a   Qazi, Umair ^a   Maruthur, Nisa M ^a,c,d   Doggett, David ^a   Fawole, Oluwakemi A ^a   Bass, Eric B ^a   Zenilman, Jonathan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CADEXOMER IODINE;

COMPRESSION BANDAGE; COST OF ILLNESS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID DRESSING; LEG ULCER; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SILVER DRESSING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VEIN SURGERY; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BANDAGES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LEG; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84891827310     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/wrr.12102     Document Type: Review

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