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The challenge of managing fungating wounds.
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This article is published in Community nurse.The article was published on 1997-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 20 citations till now.read more
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Wound Dressings and Comparative Effectiveness Data.
TL;DR: The point of using advanced dressings is to improve upon specific wound characteristics to bring it as close to "ideal" as possible, and it is only after properly assessing the wound characteristics and obtaining knowledge about available products that the "ideals" dressing may be chosen.
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Malignant wounds in women with breast cancer: feminine and sexual perspectives
TL;DR: The intervention succeeded in increasing breast cancer patients' psychosocial well-being and reducing social isolation and showed that by using modern wound care products, the patients could be secured against seepage and odour.
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A Systematic Review of Topical Treatments to Control the Odor of Malignant Fungating Wounds
Cristina Mamédio da Costa Santos,Cibele Andrucioli de Mattos Pimenta,Moacyr Roberto Cuce Nobre +2 more
TL;DR: Grade B evidence for the treatment of MFW was found with topical metronidazole, Mesalt dressing, activated carbon dressing, and curcumin ointment, and the principal methodological flaws were the design of the studies, the sample size and the absence of scales to measure odor.
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Malignant fungating wounds: assessment and management.
TL;DR: The assessment of patients with fungating wounds in the community is discussed, taking into consideration the immense psychological distress that they can cause, and factors that need to be taken into consideration when assessing these complex wounds.
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General principles and approaches to wound prevention and care at end of life: an overview .
TL;DR: In end-of-life patients, dressings should be used for general comfort and prevention of skin exposure to wound exudate and to reduce the number of potentially painful dressing changes, a review of the literature suggests.