Use of Amnion Transfer in Resistant Nonhealing Venous Leg Ulcers.

In the treatment of venous leg ulcers, after adopting many treatment modalities, at times we are still left with a local indolent problem, "the resistant nonhealing venous ulcer." With repeated surgical procedures failing to obtain a healed ulcer, constant pain, persistent discharging wound, infections, etc., many a patient turn hostile.

The outcome of surgical treatment of pressure sores at Mpilo Central Hospital, Zimbabwe.

Objective: To analyze the results of surgical management of pressure sores at Mpilo Central Hospital and also to identify the characteristics of patients who develop pressure sores in our community.

Design: A retrospective study of 25 patients who were treated surgically for pressure sores at Mpilo Central Hospital between January 1991 and December 1994.

Setting: Mpilo Central Hospital, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.