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A chronic wound is an important healthcare problem that decreases the quality of life of patients and also affects the health system, due to its high economic cost and the dedication of time by health professionals. The measurement of ulcers is an important part of their evaluation and represents a tool to develop a management plan and predict the healing time, since the reduction of the wound surface is a good indicator of healing and effectiveness of the therapy used. There are many systems to measure ulcers: simple (linear), two-dimensional (area of the surface) or three-dimensional (volume of the wound). However, there is still no clear consensus on which is the best method, which is quick, practical, cheap and simple in the usual practice since it is difficult to measure ulcers due to its threedimensional dynamic structure, in which area, volume and the shape, including the natural curvature of the human body must be taken into consideration.
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