CASE REPORT
Citric Acid Treatment of Large Non-Healing
Ulcer in a Patient with Chronic Liver Disease
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Department of Medicine and Microbiology, MIMSR Medical College and YCR Hospital, Latur,India
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Department of Microbiology, Nagpur University, Nagpur, India
Publication date: 2012-07-10
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Nagoba Basavraj
Assistant Dean, Research & Development, MIMSR Medical College, Latur – 413 531 (M.S.) India
Eur J Gen Med 2012;9(3):205-207
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A case of 45-years-old male patient with a large non-healing ulcer over right leg is reported. Patient was a known case of chronic liver disease and was having multiple underlying problems. The ulcer was not responding to conventional treatment for more than one month. This non-healing ulcer was treated simply by local application of three percent citric acid ointment every day for a month, which led to complete healing of the ulcer without any complications.