title: [Vacuum therapy in a pre- and postsurgical ulcera crurum].
abstract: Chronic wounds are often a diagnostic as well as a therapeutic problem. Three case reports depi important differential diagnoses. The importance and efficacy of vacuum assisted closure in a presurgical treatment as well as after mesh graft transplanation will be described.
authors.affiliation: Hautklinik, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mang
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kovnerystyy
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stege
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003646:Debridement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D009335:Necrobiosis Lipoidica / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009779:Occlusive Dressings; D011186:Postphlebitic Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014618:Vacuum; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology