Wound healing and ulcers of the skin : diagnosis and therapy - the practical approach
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Avi Shai; Howard Ira Maibach
- ناشر : Berlin ; London : Springer
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2005
- شابک / ISBN : 9783540212751
Description
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.
Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin is a clinical guidebook which instructs the reader how to diagnose and treat wounds and cutaneous ulcers. This excellent and well-structured book introduces an algorithmic approach for the identification of ulcer etiology, together with step-by-step flow charts for therapy. It is especially valuable since it is not only written by experts, but the content of each of the chapters has also been peer-reviewed. This extraordinary work offers helpful support to all physicians who treat acute and chronic cutaneous wounds such as dermatologists, general practitioners and family physicians, plastic and general surgeons, as well as orthopedic and vascular surgeons. Further, it will also be of assistance for physicians from other branches, such as diabetologists, internists, and geriatricians, who often encounter the need to treat chronic wounds. (Midwest).
