The pathogenesis of skin wounds due to pressure...This article first appeared in Bedsore Biomechanics and is reproduced by kind permission of Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Wounds due to pressure arise in areas of anoxic necrosis. Blood is excluded from the skin by pressures in excess of the mean capillary pressure. In addition, trauma initiates haemostatic mechanisms which increase the extent of the vascular occlusion owing to the fact that endothelial cell retraction...

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Publicado en:Journal of Tissue Viability Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 12 - 16
Autor principal: Barton AA
Formato: pictorial Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2006 Aug
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