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Treatment of Venous Leg Ulcers with a Soft Laser Light

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Laser therapy has been used for many years as a means of stimulating wound healing, but there are rather contradictory data on the effect of soft laser irradiation in the treatment of venous leg ulcers (Iupatov et al. 1990; Timen et al. 1990; Sugrue et al. 1990; Lundeberg and Malm 1991).

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  1. Clinic of Dermatology and Venereology, Higher Medical Institute, 1, G. Sofijski Boulevard, 1431, Sofia, Bulgaria

    K. Nikolova

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  1. Dermatologische Klinik im St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr-Universität, Gudrunstr. 56, 44791, Bochum, Germany

    Peter Altmeyer , Klaus Hoffmann  & Stephan el Gammal ,  & 

  2. ConvaTec Wound Healing Institute, Deeside, Clwyd, CH5 2NU, UK

    Jerry Hutchinson

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Nikolova, K. (1995). Treatment of Venous Leg Ulcers with a Soft Laser Light. In: Altmeyer, P., Hoffmann, K., el Gammal, S., Hutchinson, J. (eds) Wound Healing and Skin Physiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77882-7_56

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