title: Intractable venous leg ulcer treated successfully with allogeneic cultured dermal substitute.
abstract: Venous leg ulcers are resistant to various treatments, including autologous skin grafting. We applied an allogeneic cultured dermal substitute in a patient with such a wound, and the wound improved, healthy granulation tissue formed, and the size of the wound was reduced.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan. t-hase@med.juntendo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suga
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mizoguchi
authors.forename: Shigenori
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Muramatsu
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.forename: Kunitaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haruna
authors.forename: Shigaku
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Yoshimitsu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuroyanagi
authors.forename: Hideoki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ogawa
mesh_terms: D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003646:Debridement; D006097:Granulation Tissue; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017768:Skin, Artificial; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*