ABSTRACT
Wounds can be clinically classiœed into two categories based on the duration to closure. Acute wounds are those that progress through the process of healing in a stepwise manner and achieve closure within days. A chronic wound is deœned as a wound or any interruption in the continuity of the body’s surface that requires a prolonged time to heal (more than four weeks), does not heal, or recurs [1]. Chronic wounds arise in a great variety of situations and may be associated with a number of pathological processes.
