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Prevalence and Mechanisms of Itch in Chronic Wounds: A Narrative Review
2025-03-05
Abstract excerpt
Itch is a commonly experienced problem by individuals with chronic wounds and it greatly compromises their quality of life, while scratching can further hinder the wound healing process. Despite this being a clinically recognized issue, our knowledge of its exact prevalence in chronic wounds of different types and the molecular mechanisms driving it is limited. The multifactorial nature of wound itch makes its cha...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3d0721a3-3d65-579c-ab62-9354dea24a06
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202503.0353.v1
