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Complex wounds.

Marcus Castro Ferreira·Paulo Tuma·Viviane Fernandes Carvalho·Fábio Kamamoto
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Complex wound is the term used more recently to group those well-known difficult wounds, either chronic or acute, that challenge medical and nursing teams. They defy cure using conventional and simple "dressings" therapy and currently have a major socioeconomic impact. The purpose of this review is to bring these wounds to the attention of the health-care community, suggesting that they should be treated by multidisciplinary teams in specialized hospital centers. In most cases, surgical treatment is unavoidable, because the extent of skin and subcutaneous tissue loss requires reconstruction with grafts and flaps. New technologies, such as the negative pressure device, should be introduced. A brief review is provided of the major groups of complex wounds--diabetic wounds, pressure sores, chronic venous ulcers, post-infection soft-tissue gangrenes, and ulcers resulting from vasculitis.

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Marcus Castro Ferreira, Paulo Tuma, Viviane Fernandes Carvalho, Fábio Kamamoto. 2006. Complex wounds.. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1807-59322006000600014

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