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Chapter 16 - Management of Pressure Ulcers in Neurological Rehabilitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2018

By
Ramaswamy Hariharan  and
Anand Viswanathan
Edited by
Krishnan Padmakumari Sivaraman Nair ,
Marlís González-Fernández  and
Jalesh N. Panicker
Krishnan Padmakumari Sivaraman Nair
Affiliation:
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Marlís González-Fernández
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Jalesh N. Panicker
Affiliation:
National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London
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Neurorehabilitation Therapy and Therapeutics , pp. 178 - 185
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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