Can Wound Exudate from Venous Leg Ulcers Measure Wound Pain Status?: A Pilot Study.

We investigated the associations between the self-evaluated pain status and two pain biomarker candidates, nerve growth factor and S100A8/A9, in exudate from venous leg ulcer to finally develop an objective pain evaluation method. Patients with venous leg ulcer participated in this cross-sectional o...

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Main Authors: Taichi Goto, Nao Tamai, Gojiro Nakagami, Aya Kitamura, Ayumi Naito, Masayuki Hirokawa, Chisako Shimokawa, Kazuo Takahashi, Junichi Umemoto, Hiromi Sanada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5147907?pdf=render