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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doaj-980d0d7ac7f04666a6883922b10fce9a2020-11-24T22:23:40ZengSociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical1678-98491983-06-01162858910.1590/S0037-86821983000200004S0037-86821983000200004Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensisElmer Alejandro Llanos Cuentas0Philip Davis Marsden1Douglas Torre2Air Colombo Barreto3Universidade de BrasíliaUniversidade de BrasíliaUniversidade de BrasíliaUniversidade de BrasíliaThe 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 auxiliary therapeutic measure in our practice. However this technique may be suitable for species o/Leishmania causing more limited superficial lesions in man without the danger of metastasis.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821983000200004&lng=en&tlng=enLeishmanioseLeishmania braziliensis braziliensisCrioterapia |
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Elmer Alejandro Llanos Cuentas Philip Davis Marsden Douglas Torre Air Colombo Barreto Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical Leishmaniose Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis Crioterapia |
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Elmer Alejandro Llanos Cuentas Philip Davis Marsden Douglas Torre Air Colombo Barreto |
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Elmer Alejandro Llanos Cuentas |
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Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis |
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Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis |
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Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis |
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Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis |
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Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis |
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attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to l. braziliensis braziliensis |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) |
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical |
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1678-9849 |
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1983-06-01 |
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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 auxiliary therapeutic measure in our practice. However this technique may be suitable for species o/Leishmania causing more limited superficial lesions in man without the danger of metastasis. |
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Leishmaniose Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis Crioterapia |
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