A study of the Unna Boot compared with the elastic bandage in venous ulcers: a randomized clinical trial 1
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Copyright © 2015 Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC). This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. Corresponding Author: Alcione Matos de Abreu Universidade Federal Fluminense Rua Doutor Celestino, 74 Centro CEP: 24020-091, Niterói, RJ, Brasil E-mail: [email protected] 1 Paper extracted from master’s thesis “Usa of Unna Boot in Comparison to Elastic Bandage in Patients with Venous Ulcers: Clinical Study”, presented to Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. 2 Doctoral student, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. Scholarship holder from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Níve Superior (CAPES), Brazil. 3 PhD, Full Professor, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. A study of the Unna Boot compared with the elastic bandage in venous ulcers: a randomized clinical trial1
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