[New local therapy in the treatment of leg ulcers: Biostim cream]

The treatment of leg-ulcers involves two sections which are theoretically distinct but in practice closely related: aetiological therapy which aims at correcting the causal factor or factors, and local treatment which is intended to facilitate detersion, granulation, and finally epidermization. Amongst the new local therapies, glycoproteins extracted from Klebsiella pneumoniae (Biostim cream) have immunostimulant properties and have a detersive action, facilitating the granulation, and because of their indirect bactericidal action mean that local antibiotics can be avoided.