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Pathophysiology of Chronic Wounds

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Surgery in Wounds

Abstract

The normal response to tissue injury is a timely and orderly reparative process that results in sustained restoration of anatomical and functional integrity [1]. Wound repair, however, is not a simple linear process but rather a complex integration of dynamic interactive processes involving cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions mediated by humoral messengers [2,3]. Unencumbered, these processes follow a specific time sequence or chronology [2]. Although the timing of the various processes is usually orderly, it is not mutually exclusive and there is a varying overlap in time [3,4].

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  1. Service des Brûles, Hôpital Lapeyronie, 391 Avenue du Doyen Giraud, 34255, Montpellier Cedex, France

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  2. Department of Plastic Surgery, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, OX2 8HE, Oxford, Oxon, UK

    Paul E. Banwell BSc MB BS FrCS

  3. Plastische Chirurgie und Handchirurgie, Chirurgische Universitätsklinik, Josef-Schneider-Str.2, 97080, Würzburg, Germany

    Ulrich E. Ziegler

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Robson, M.C. (2004). Pathophysiology of Chronic Wounds. In: Téot, L., Banwell, P.E., Ziegler, U.E. (eds) Surgery in Wounds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59307-9_2

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