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Australian Journal of General Practice, 2021 Case: A man aged 55 years presented with a two-week history of an enlarging painful ulcer affecting his right lower leg. It had not responded to a five-day course of oral cephalexin. He had no prior history of skin ulcers. His medical history included hypertension, gout, obesity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
O'Bryen, John, Webb, Damian
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A Challenging Diagnosis of Leg Ulcer [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2018 Ischaemic ulcers of the lower limb can have several aethiopathological mechanisms. For instance, the uncommon Martorell hypertensive leg ulcer is an infrequent complication of long-term uncontrolled arterial hypertension and is largely ignored and ...
Maria João Serpa +6 more
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Journal of Vascular Surgery, 2009 Venous ulcers continue to cause problems for patients and health care systems. These are painful and unpleasant for the patient and expensive for health care providers to treat. This brief review highlights effective methods of management. There is level 1 evidence of the efficacy of compression (bandaging or stockings) in healing ulcers as well as ...
Coleridge-Smith, Philip D.
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Clinico-etiological evaluation of chronic leg ulcer in a tertiary care center of eastern India
Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2020 Background: A chronic leg ulcer (CLU) is a significant public health problem. It has various etiologies. Racial, familial, occupational, and social factors may also have an impact on the prevalence of different causes of leg ulcers.
Falguni Nag +3 more
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Journal of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, 2022 Background: Chronic nonhealing ulcers of the lower extremity are a cause of morbidity and mortality. The various treatment options available are limited and unsatisfactory.
Amina Asfiya +3 more
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Mini punch graft for chronic leg ulcers, case series
Dermatology Reports, 2019 Chronic leg ulcer can caused morbidity and decreased quality of life. Previous study reported leg ulcer affect up to 3% of adult population worldwide Mini punch graft is one of therapeutic options of chronic leg ulcer.
Angela Mistralina Lukito +4 more
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Cost-Effective Use of Silver Dressings for the Treatment of Hard-to-Heal Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers [PDF]
, 2014 Aim To estimate the cost-effectiveness of silver dressings using a health economic model based on time-to-wound-healing in hard-to-heal chronic venous leg ulcers (VLUs). Background Chronic venous ulceration affects 1–3% of the adult population and
Jemec Gregor B. E. +18 more
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Supervised exercise training as an adjunctive therapy for venous leg ulcers: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial [PDF]
, 2015 Background Venous leg ulcers are common, chronic wounds that are painful and reduce quality of life. Compression therapy is known to assist in the healing of venous leg ulceration.
Gumber, Anil +18 more
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Can Wound Exudate from Venous Leg Ulcers Measure Wound Pain Status?: A Pilot Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We investigated the associations between the self-evaluated pain status and two pain biomarker candidates, nerve growth factor and S100A8/A9, in exudate from venous leg ulcer to finally develop an objective pain evaluation method.
Taichi Goto +9 more
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, 2021 Background Venous disease is the most common cause of leg ulceration. Treatment of superficial venous reflux has been shown to reduce the rate of ulcer recurrence but the effect of early endovenous ablation of superficial venous reflux on ulcer ...
Heatley, Francine
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