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Clerkship - Non-Healing Wounds

  1. Define "non-healing".
  2. Discuss a differential diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of a patient with:
    • non-healing lower extremity wound
    • non-healing wound of the torso
    • body area other than the lower extremity
  3. Describe the pathophysiology involved for each of the diagnostic possibilities. Consider:
    • pressure
    • ischemia
    • infection
    • malignancy
    • foreign body
  4. Discuss wound infection, seroma, hematoma, wound dehisance.

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