Venous ulcers are the most common type of leg ulcers, but that doesn't make them any less troubling. Most often found just above the ankle, these non-healing skin wounds can take on many shapes and ...

A "spray-on skin" which coats a wound with a layer of skin cells could help healing, according to US and Canadian researchers. The spray was tested on 228 people with leg ulcers, which are painful ...

A 54-year-old man of Persian origin presented to our department with a 1-year history of ulcers on the right leg that had been unresponsive to numerous topical treatments, accompanied by lymphedema of ...

A potential breakthrough in treatment for venous leg ulcers has given us a promising look into the future. The new treatment is called spray-on-skin, and a recent study in The Lancet finds that it ...

A novel spray-on skin treatment consisting of living cells made by Smith & Nephew, which is designed to work with the body’s own cells to help heal leg ulcers, has failed in a late-stage clinical ...

A leg ulcer can be understood as a break in the skin, typically located on the feet or the lower part of the leg. Leg ulcers are generally diagnosed based on their appearance, though this can be ...

(HealthDay News) – Chronic leg ulcers (CLUs) that don’t heal after three months of appropriate treatment have an overall skin cancer frequency of 10.4%, according to a study published online Feb. 20 ...

A great grandmother is the first person in Britain to have a wound healed using skin from dead donors. Until the transplant, Jessie Townley, 92, had suffered from painful ulcers on her legs for 20 ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that mainly affects your joints. But RA and many of the medications that treat this bodywide inflammatory condition can also affect the skin.

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