Full Description
Bringing together papers presented at the Third International Symposium on Tissue Repair, held in January 1990 in Miami, Florida, USA, this volume focuses on actual and potential clinical applications of growth factors. It highlights the difficulty of designing clinical studies and presents the first available data on clinical efforts to apply growth factors in actual patients. Also covered are experimental approaches to growth factors, focusing on combination therapy. Broad-based in interest, "Clinical and Experimental Approaches to Dermal and Epidermal Repair" will answer the needs of clinicians, students and researchers both in academic and industrial laboratories, as well as enterostomal therapists and others interested in wound healing.
Contents
Clinical spectrum of chronic wounds; anatomy, pathophysiology, problems, and solutions; vascular factors governing heating in chronic wounds, T.Hunt; if wounds could talk, G.Mulder; clinical studies on growth factors in pressure sores - preliminary report, M.Robson et al; the extracellular wound environment and its role in wound healing - characteristics of fetal repair, T.Krummel et al; wound fluid - the growth environment, T.Hunt; contemporary approaches to wound healing, wound dressings - current and future, W.Eaglstein et al; assessment of wound healing speed in man, J.Viljanto.
