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How to Manage Radiation Injuries

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Complex chronic ulcers due to irradiation are sometimes seen in patients who have undergone radiation therapy for malignancies or X-ray fluoroscopic procedures for ischemic heart disease. These undesirable complications bring continuous distress for the patients and decrease their quality of life.

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  1. Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Developmental and Reconstructive Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan

    Chikako Murakami-Senju, Masaki Fujioka & Sadanori Akita

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  1. Department of Surgery Pôle EMMBRUN Wound Healing Unit, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France

    Luc Téot

  2. Department of Geriatrics Wound Healing Unit, Hôpital Rothschild, Paris, France

    Sylvie Meaume MD, PhD

  3. Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Developmental and Reconstructive Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Sadanori Akita

  4. Division of Vascular Surgery Section of Wound Healing and Tissue, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    William J. Ennis DO, MBA

  5. Department of Dermatology, Hôpital Erasme Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Veronique del Marmol

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Murakami-Senju, C., Fujioka, M., Akita, S. (2015). How to Manage Radiation Injuries. In: Téot, L., Meaume, S., Akita, S., Ennis, W.J., del Marmol, V. (eds) Skin Necrosis. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1241-0_10

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