Chronic leg ulcers in adult patients with rheumatological diseases - a 7-year retrospective review

International Wound Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 601-604

  Chia, Hui Y ^a   Tang, Mark By ^a  

^a NATIONAL SKIN CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chronic ulcer; Rheumatological diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHRONIC LEG ULCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEG ULCER; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911805805     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/iwj.12012     Document Type: Article

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