Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis

Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis

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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 auxi...

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Main Authors: Elmer Alejandro Llanos Cuentas, Philip Davis Marsden, Douglas Torre, Air Colombo Barreto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1983-06-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:
Leishmaniose
Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis
Crioterapia
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821983000200004&lng=en&tlng=en
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spelling 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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Philip Davis Marsden
Douglas Torre
Air Colombo Barreto
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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
author_facet Elmer Alejandro Llanos Cuentas
Philip Davis Marsden
Douglas Torre
Air Colombo Barreto
author_sort Elmer Alejandro Llanos Cuentas
title Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis
title_short Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis
title_full Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis
title_fullStr Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis
title_full_unstemmed Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis
title_sort attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to l. braziliensis braziliensis
publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
series Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
issn 1678-9849
publishDate 1983-06-01
description 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.
topic Leishmaniose
Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis
Crioterapia
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