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Volume 52 - Issue 11 - November, 2006

Column

Guest Editorial
11/01/2006
  The emergence of wound healing as a major specialty has changed the face of medicine. The most basic of human ailments, the chronic wound has become the focus of intense scientific investigation and the term evidence-based is now rigorously...
  The emergence of wound healing as a major specialty has changed the face of medicine. The most basic of human ailments, the chronic wound has become the focus of intense scientific investigation and the term evidence-based is now rigorously...
  The emergence of wound healing...
11/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
11/01/2006
  “I’ve got something growing around my stoma! It’s bleeding, it hurts, and I’m scared it’s my cancer coming back.”   What this patient is describing is a peristomal skin condition referred to by multiple terminologies: pseudoverrucous...
  “I’ve got something growing around my stoma! It’s bleeding, it hurts, and I’m scared it’s my cancer coming back.”   What this patient is describing is a peristomal skin condition referred to by multiple terminologies: pseudoverrucous...
  “I’ve got something growing...
11/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention

Feature

Empirical Studies
11/01/2006
  Venous ulcers (VU) profoundly decrease a person’s quality of life.1,2 They affect up to 1% of the population over 60 years of age at any given time3,4 and cost an estimated $2.5 to $3.5 billion US healthcare dollars annually.5 A MEDLINE...
  Venous ulcers (VU) profoundly decrease a person’s quality of life.1,2 They affect up to 1% of the population over 60 years of age at any given time3,4 and cost an estimated $2.5 to $3.5 billion US healthcare dollars annually.5 A MEDLINE...
  Venous ulcers (VU) profoundly...
11/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention