Przykłady ulcer

• Relapse during the first year can be reduced substantially from about 50% to 5% if treatment corresponds to that used for duodenal ulcers.

• While the general principles of pressure ulcers management seems to be wellestablished, controversy exists over specific areas of prevention and treatment.

• Several strategies are available for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.

• Description of pressure ulcer pain at rest and at dressing change.

• In patients who did not undergo surgery, biopsies were obtained from nasal or palatine ulcers or the affected sinus.

• In a longer perspective, many people are affected by leg swelling, varicose veins, and slowly healing leg ulcers (conditions not addressed in this report).

• This article reviews the use of short stretch bandages against multi-layer bandaging for venous leg ulcers.

• Pressure-reducing devices are effective in improving the healing rate of pressure ulcers.

• An ulcer which fails to heal despite adequate therapy should be biopsied to exclude malignant change.

• Therapy for pressure ulcers is generally empiric, based on anecdotal experience, or borrowed from the treatment of patients with acute wounds.

• Gastro-enterologists will be surprised to read that peptic ulcer is ' that classic psychosomatic symptom ' (p. 297).

• Osteomyelitis is often difficult to distinguish from a simple ulcer, and radiology is rarely of additional assistance.

• The localized cutaneous form is the most frequent, characterized by the presence of skin ulcers.

• Little quantitative work, however, has been done in the area of preventing pressure ulcers through patient and caregiver education following discharge.

• The pressure ulcer in one patient could not be classified.