[Current ulcer treatment]

Patients with wounds and cutaneous ulcers have been a costly but low priority group. During recent years, greater attention has been focused on wound problems, partly as the result of the formation of interest groups and the establishment of wound treatment centres, e.g. in Britain and the USA. In June this year, the first wound treatment centre in Scandinavia is to open in Copenhagen. Research and education in this field give promise of modernised treatment for patients with chronic non-healing wounds and ulcers.