Human skin wounds: a major and snowballing threat to public health and the economy.

K Sen, Chandan; M Gordillo, Gayle; Roy, Sashwati; Kirsner, Robert; Lambert, Lynn; K Hunt, Thomas; Gottrup, Finn; C Gurtner, Geoffrey; T Longaker, Michael

doi:10.1111/j.1524-475x.2009.00543.x

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Human skin wounds: a major and snowballing threat to public health and the economy.

Published in Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society • 2026

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Authors:

Chandan K Sen

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Gayle M Gordillo

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Sashwati Roy

Abstract

ABSTRACT In the United States, chronic wounds affect 6.5 million patients. An estimated excess of US$25 billion is spent annually on treatment of chronic wounds and the burden is rapidly growing due to increasing health care costs, an aging population and a sharp rise in the incidence of diabetes an...

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