Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis
The use of cryotherapy as an adjunct to systemic antimonial therapy (Clucantime) was studied in 17 patients with a total of23 skin lesions of leishmaniasis in an area where L. braziliensis braziliensis is the species in circulation. Cryotherapy did not speed healing and has been discarded as an auxi...
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Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
1983-06-01
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Series: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821983000200004&lng=en&tlng=en |