Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doctors Discover Key Growth Factor in Ulcer Therapy...
...Ulcer repair research at Harvard Medical School has revealed an important growth factor which may improve current therapies for the condition...
Fewkes, a skin oncologist, utilizes the technique in skin cancer and leg ulcer surgery. Removal of skin cancers often creates large holes in the epidermis, or outermost layer of skin, which must be filled in, she says. The treatment of leg ulcers, large skin wounds which do not heal, is based on skin replacement...
...catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images of his stomach, small intestine and colon ($75); antibiotics and Tagamet for the ulcer ($25); plus five days of hospitalization...
...that one of his three daughters was about to give birth. Sutherland seemed forgiving of his captors, allowing, "I don't think they really thoroughly understand what they were doing to us, putting those chains back on our legs every day." Although he appeared healthy, the discovery of an ulcer at week's end delayed his return...