Dressings for healing venous leg ulcers

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Palfreyman, Simon J ^a   Nelson, E Andrea ^b   Lochiel, Rona ^a   Michaels, Jonathan A ^c  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTED ARTICLE; REVIEW; BANDAGE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

BANDAGES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84929861421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001103.pub3     Document Type: Review

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