0 a kind of sore that does not heal easily, on the skin or inside the body -- แผลเปื่อย
a mouth/stomach ulcer.
The pressure ulcer in one patient could not be classified.
Little quantitative work, however, has been done in the area of preventing pressure ulcers through patient and caregiver education following discharge.
The localized cutaneous form is the most frequent, characterized by the presence of skin ulcers.
Osteomyelitis is often difficult to distinguish from a simple ulcer, and radiology is rarely of additional assistance.
Gastro-enterologists will be surprised to read that peptic ulcer is ' that classic psychosomatic symptom ' (p. 297).
Therapy for pressure ulcers is generally empiric, based on anecdotal experience, or borrowed from the treatment of patients with acute wounds.
An ulcer which fails to heal despite adequate therapy should be biopsied to exclude malignant change.
Pressure-reducing devices are effective in improving the healing rate of pressure ulcers.
