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. 2019 Jul 29;94(3):369-370.
doi: 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20198140.

Serum uric acid and leg ulcers

Rodrigo Araldi Nery  1 , Thelma Larocca Skare  2   3
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Serum uric acid and leg ulcers

Rodrigo Araldi Nery et al. An Bras Dermatol. .
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Association study of serum uric acid (UA) with fibrin presence in leg ulcers (with fibrin, mean UA of 5.7 ± 1.7mg/dL; without fibrin, mean UA of 4.8 ± 1.3mg/dL; p = 0.01). No association was found with hyperkeratosis (p = 0.42). Presence of granulation and necrosis could not be associated with UA levels due to the small size of one of the samples
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