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EWMA Position Document 2008
Hard-to-heal wounds
a holistic approach
Editor: Christine Moffatt
The seventh European Wound Management
Association position document will be launched
in May 2008 at the EWMA congress ‘Wound
Management · Wound Healing – Responsibility
and Actions’, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal,
14-16 May 2008.
The document will be available in English,
French, German, Italian and Spanish, and
can be downloaded from www.ewma.org
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We regret to inform our readers that
the references published for the paper
entitled Treatment of chronic wounds
with autologous platelet-rich plasma in
EWMA Journal, Vol 8, No 2 are incorrect.
The correct references are listed below.
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