Abstract
Prediction of healing of ulcers in ischaemic limbs can preclude unnecessary treatment for ulcers that cannot heal. Non-invasive methods are of marked value as the ischaemic limb is susceptible to further ulceration from local skin penetration. Relative hyperemia of the ulcer was measured by scintillation count over the ulcer and at points 2.5 cm from the edge of the ulcer. Relative hyperemia was determined by dividing the count per unit area of the ulcer by the counts per unit area of the surrounding tissue. All ulcers with a relative hyperemia over 1.5 healed.
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C. A. Stewart
Joyce Laing works in the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Playfield House, Cupar, Fife, and is a Consultant Art Therapist to Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons and Chairwoman of the Scottish Society of Art and Psychology.
Dr Niculescu Dan, Centrul de Reumatologie, Str. J. (F)ucick no. 5, Bucuresti, Romania
Anni Vilppula, Department of Medicine, Paimio Hospital, Preitilä, Finland
G. Tausch, Department of Rheumatology, Municipal Hospital of Vienna-Lainz, Wolkersbergenstraße 1, A-1130Wien, Austria
Dr Guido Gothoni, Medica Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., P.O. Box 325, SF-00101 Helsinki 10, Finland
A. Elman, Dept. of Rheumatology, Karolinska sjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Hannu Paitälä, Rheumatism Foundation Hospital, Heinola, Finland
Jonas Jonsson, National Bacteriological Laboratory, S-105 21 Stockholm, Sweden