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Different Types of Wounds

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There are many different types of wounds which we come across in our day to day practice. We need to take biopsy in so many patients. There are some medicines responsible for ulcers, some autoimmune conditions and some systemic diseases associated with skin ulcerations. In some ulcers it is difficult to know why they are not healing and sometimes out of many local wound dressing materials, some dressing material works wonders. These rare types of skin ulcers need expertise to diagnose and treat.

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Vachhrajani, V., Khakhkhar, P. (2020). Different Types of Wounds. In: Science of Wound Healing and Dressing Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9236-9_13

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