The treatment of chronic wounds remains problematic, despite new insight into the cellular
and molecular basis of wound healing. Although the aetio-pathogenesis of chronic wounds
is said to be multi-factorial, it is evident from literature that effective and adequate wound
debridement has produced the most consistent effect in chronic wound treatment. There is a
growing body of evidence that suggests that wound healing in chronic diabetic foot ulcers is
growth factor dependent and that the therapeutic delivery of these growth factors to wounds …