Inflammation 2: its role in the healing of chronic wounds
- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Mark Allen Group in Journal of Wound Care
- Vol. 11 (7) , 245-249
- https://doi.org/10.12968/jowc.2002.11.7.26416
Abstract
Why do some wounds fail to heal in the expected time? Part two of this article on inflammation discusses the possible causes, which include recurrence of trauma, bacterial and other contamination and perhaps, above all, the ageing processKeywords
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