Prospective, Multicenter Study of Managing Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers
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Prospective, multicenter study of managing lower extremity venous ulcers.
Seventy patients with 90 venous ulcers were randomly assigned to hydrocolloid or conventional dressing and compression therapy at four study centers. The ulcers had been present for a mean of 47.8 in the control and 46.2 weeks in the treatment group and 42% of all patients had recurrent ulcers. Ulcers treated with hydrocolloid dressings reduced 71% and control treated wounds reduced 43% in area...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Vascular Surgery
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0890-5096
DOI: 10.1007/bf02132997