Meanings of venous ulcer in English

Because of a squamous cell carcinoma that had developed in the venous ulcer, one patient in the SEPS group underwent a below-knee amputation.

Background: Chronic venous insufficiency, in its final stage can cause venous ulcers.

There is evidence that compressive therapy favours the healing process of venous ulcers.

Failure to reepithelialize is the major clinical problem in venous ulcers.

Local Treating chronic venous ulcers has 2 components: topically healing the ulcer and controlling the venous insufficiency.

Surgical treatment of venous ulcers is based on correcting venous hypertension, by treating incompetent superficial, deep, and perforating veins.

In venous ulcers, the papillary dermis and the ulcer bed contained convoluted capillaries with phosphotungstic acid haematoxylin-positive pericapillary fibrin cuffs.

Seventy patients with 90 venous ulcers were randomly assigned to hydrocolloid or conventional dressing and compression therapy at four study centers.

These observations suggest that growth factors critical in wound healing, such as TGF-beta, are present within venous ulcers, but are abnormally distributed.

The combination of four-layer compression with the SCD System on healing venous ulcers needs to be tested by a clinical effectiveness study.

The study will include 216 individuals (108 per branch) with venous ulcers treated in primary care nursing consultations.

Venous ulcers have a prevalence of 0.5 % to 0.8 % in the general population, and increases starting at 60 years of age.