Review: insufficient evidence exists for any one dressing type (used beneath compression) for venous leg ulcer healing

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Julie Betts. Evid Based Nurs. 2007 Jan.

. 2007 Jan;10(1):21.

doi: 10.1136/ebn.10.1.21.

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