Case report of non-healing surgical wound treated with dehydrated human amniotic membrane.

7/1/2015 J Transl Med. 2015 Jul 24;13:242 Riordan NH, George BA, Chandler TB, McKenna RW. Introduction: Non-healing wounds can pose a medical challenge as in the case of vasculopathic venostasis resulting in a surgical ulcer. When traditional approaches to wound care fail, an amniotic patch (a dehydrated tissue allograft derived from human amnion) can function…

Cancer is a functional repair tissue.

6/28/1905 Med Hypotheses. 2006;66(3):486-90. Meng X, Riordan NH. When a wound occurs, growth and repair genes (GR genes, such as oncogenes, proto-oncogenes, etc.) in surrounding cells are activated and secretion of growth and repair factors (GR factors, such as growth, stem cell, and stimulating factors, etc.) is induced to heal the wound. However, if the…