Cutaneous wounds
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Malignant cutaneous wounds.
Very little literature is available about malignant cutaneous fungating wounds, and most of the research has been conducted in England. Although only a small number of patients with cancer develop the traumatic and devastating complication of a malignant cutaneous wound, it can be a very distressing occurrence. These patients usually are in the last few months of their lives, and the presence o...
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Copyright © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. In 2005, 11.8 million wounds were treated in emergency departments in the United States.1 More than half a million burns and 7.3 million lacerations are treated annually,2 and wounds caused by cutting or piercing instruments are responsible for an additional 2 million outpatient visits each year.3 The number of Americans who are bitten by an anima...
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Wound healing is a specific host immune response for restoration of tissue integrity. Experimental studies demonstrated an alteration of growth factors activity due to their reduced synthesis, increased degradation and inactivation. In wound healing platelets play an essential role since they are rich of alpha-granules growth factors (platelet derived growth factor--PDGF; transforming growth fa...
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Chronic wounds represent a major public health problem affecting 6.5 million people in the United States. Ischemia, primarily caused by peripheral artery diseases, represents a major complicating factor in cutaneous wound healing. In this work, we sought to develop a mathematical model of ischemic dermal wounds. The model consists of a coupled system of partial differential equations in the par...
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The ability of the skin to repair itself after injury is vital to human survival and is disrupted in a spectrum of disorders. The process of cutaneous wound healing is complex, requiring a coordinated response by immune cells, hematopoietic cells, and resident cells of the skin. We review the classic paradigms of wound healing and evaluate how recent discoveries have enriched our understanding ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vascular Surgery
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0741-5214
DOI: 10.1016/s0741-5214(86)70021-9