Table 1.

Patient demographics^*

	Number of wounds	Male:female	Mean age in years (range)
Chronic	11	4:7	76·5 (66–96)
Surgical dehiscence	11	2:9	71·3 (55–84)
Surgical incision	8	3:5	67·8 (32–78)
Total	30	9:21	72·3 (32–96)

^* Patients were grouped according to their wound type into the following categories: chronic wounds (including pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, arterial ulcers and venous leg ulcers), dehisced surgical wounds and surgical incision wounds (wounds that were created by a surgical incision that remained open for closure by secondary intention).