Lower Extremity Ulcers Worksheet
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Description
Location between toes, over phalangeal heads, and lateral malleolus
Even wound margins oval or round
Location medial lower leg/ankle seldom if ever on the foot/above the knee
Irregular wound margins
Location Plantar foot over metatarsal, and under heel
Even wound margins
Surrounding Tissue, Blanched, purpuric, thin, shiny, dry, hairless
Surrounding Tissue Scalling, pruritic, weepy, brown dermatitis, firm edema
Surrounding Tissue hyperkeratotic, callus, cellulitis
Sever pain, minimal drainage decreased temp., cyanosis, thick toenails, dimished pulses
foot deformitiy, diminished sensation in the foot, palpable pulses, painless, osteomyelitis
pain varies, ankle flare, dilated superficial veins, hard fibrosis surrounding tissue
