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. 2020 Feb;17(1):230-231.
doi: 10.1111/iwj.13260. Epub 2019 Nov 7.

Venous ulcerations occur more frequently in women on the left lower leg. Can pelvic congestion syndrome be an often undetected cause?

Jan-Malte Placke  1 , Finja Jockenhöfer  1 , Sven Benson  2 , Joachim Dissemond  1
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Venous ulcerations occur more frequently in women on the left lower leg. Can pelvic congestion syndrome be an often undetected cause?

Jan-Malte Placke et al. Int Wound J. 2020 Feb.
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Comparison of localisations of venous leg ulcers in men and women [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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