Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin - Diagnosis and Therapy - The Practical Approach

-  Not only written by experts but the content of each of the chapters has also been peer-reviewed.
- Presents a step-by-step approach to the treatment of chronic wounds.
- For dermatologists, but also many other medical disciplines such as general practitioners and family physicians who also treat chronic wounds.

List of contents

Basic Definitions and Introduction.- Natural Course of Wound Repair Versus Impaired Healing in Chronic Skin Ulcers.- Milestones in the History of Wound Healing.- Etiology and Mechanisms of Cutaneous Ulcer Formation.- Determining Etiology: History and Physical Examination.- Determining Etiology: Biopsy and Laboratory Investigation.- Ulcer Measurement and Patient Assessment.- Dressing Materials.- Debridement.- Antibiotics, Antiseptics, and Cutaneous Ulcers.- Topical Antibacterial Agents.- Skin Grafting.- Skin Substitutes and Tissue-Engineered Skin Equivalents.- Human Skin Equivalents: When and How to Use.- Growth Factors.- Drugs, Wound Healing and Cutaneous Ulcers.- Alternative Topical Preparations.- Additional Topical Preparations.- Nutrition and Cutaneous Ulcers.- Therapeutic Approach to Cutaneous Ulcers According to Appearance.- Appendix: Guidelines for Patients and Medical Staff.

Product details

• Authors: Howard I Maibach, Howard I. Maibach, A. Shai, Av Shai, Avi Shai
• Assisted by: Marion Philipp (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2004
• EAN: 9783540212751
• ISBN: 978-3-540-21275-1
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 19 mm x 254 mm
• Weight: 664 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 270 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Geriatrie, B, Medicine, Krankheiten und Störungen, Plastische und Rekonstruktionschirurgie, plastic surgery, Klinische und Innere Medizin, Surgery, allgemeine Chirurgie, Geriatrics, Diseases, INTERNAL MEDICINE, Dermatology, general surgery, Infectious & contagious diseases, Geriatric medicine, infectious diseases, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Clinical & internal medicine, Plastic & reconstructive surgery, Diseases and disorders