Amerigel Ointment
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Case History:
Chronic 3 year old scalp wound previously seborrheic keratosis.
Date:
July 24 1996
Patient:
80 year old Caucasian male.
Diagnosis:
Pre-cancerous seborrheic keratosis
Medical History:
Condition diagnosed: No other significant medical diagnosis. Three years prior surgical removal of lesion resulted in non-healing wound. In October 1995 many wound cleansing products and treatments were tried. like vinegar water washes and saline wet-to-dry dressing applications. No healing occurred.
Treatment:
Twice daily application of Amerigel to open wound with 4x4 gauze dressing changes.
Number of days to current healing:
55 days. (See photos)
7/24/96-TREATMENT DAY 1 Red, thick, sero-sanguinous eschar encompassing wound.
8/7/96-TREATMENT DAY Note reduction eschar debrided in 7 days, and significant epithelialization is noted to lower quadrant.
8/28/96-TREATMENT DAY Note further reduction in open wound 91% closure.
Wound Measurements: Chronic Scalp Wound
Date 7/24 7/31 8/7 8/14 8/21 8/28 9/4 Wound Size #1 width 4.5 cm 4.5 cm 3.0 cm 2.5 cm 0.7 cm 0.6 cm 0.2 cm % healed starting size 0% 33% 16% 72% 14% 66% #1 length 3.7 cm 3.7 cm 2.8 cm 2.5 cm 1.3 cm 0.8 cm 0.3 cm % healed starting size 0% 24% 10% 48% 38% 62% #2 width wound split 1.2 cm 0.2 cm 0.2 cm 0.3 cm % healed initial size 83% 0% -33% #2 length wound split 1.0 cm 0.3 cm 0.3 cm 0.4 cm % healed initial size 70% 0% -25% Figure 1: Weekly wound measurements by standard ruler, performed by a single care giver and charted every seven days. Note, dramatic reduction in open wound measurements in this previously non-healing wound.
Chronic 3 Year Old Non-Healing Wound- 42 days to 94% Closure
Figure 2: This is the amount of healing in reference to days and measured in centimeters. Note at the point where the graph becomes four lines the woulnd split into two smaller wounds. Measurements were not collected after day 42, healing continues.
Figure 3: This graph shows a biphasic healing cycle reflecting the percentge reduction of wound size in relation to the number of treatment days. The wound is reducing in size by 31.5% per week.
