Mohs surgery complications risk is increased in patients who have smoked tobacco when compared with those who have never used any form of nicotine.

India: A recent study published in the journal Bioinformation compared the effectiveness of Aloe vera and chlorhexidine ...

Discover a review in which diabetes was investigated in 5 studies, with only one demonstrating a correlation between the ...

A single-center study suggests the surgery is safe and effective even when tumors are large or located in high-risk areas.

A nurse in Karnataka has been suspended for using Fevikwik instead of stitches on a child's wound, citing it would prevent scars. The incident, recorded by the parents, led to public outrage when ...

By distinguishing between healing and non-healing tissue, the DeepView ® System provides an immediate and binary prediction of wound healing on the same day of injury, benefiting clinical ...

Background The medical literature includes two risk scores predicting the occurrence of abdominal wound dehiscence. These risk indices were validated by the authors on the populations studied.

Background Complex wounds impose a substantial health economic burden worldwide. As wound care is managed across multiple settings by a range of healthcare professionals with varying levels of ...

Objectives Research has found unwarranted variation across community wound care services in the North of England, with underuse of evidence-based practice and overuse of interventions where there is ...

However, of the non-overlapping categories, the PSIs picked up several gastrointestinal complications while NSQIP identified events such as wound disruption which the new PSIs did not. Notably, these ...

Prior studies have identified several risk factors associated with the development of abdominal wound dehiscence, such as: age (>65 years old), gender (male), smoking, obesity, chronic steroid ...