Human skin wound dressings to treat cutaneous ulcers
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have shown that it is possible to treat venous ulcers unresponsive to conventional treatment with wound dressings made from human skin grown in vitro. A study demonstrates how this approach was successfully used to treat venous lower-extremity ulcers in patients who had been chronically suffering from such wounds.