Leech therapy for epidermoid cysts and review of the literature
Hirudo medicinalis sucks blood directly through the external mammalian skin. We recently observed a healthy 64-year-old Iranian man, who presented with numerous asymptomatic multilobular oval-to-round well-defined 0.5 to 1.5 cm cystic lesions with central umbilication (central black eschar) over the...
Main Authors: | Abbas Rasi, Alireza Faghihi, Mirhadi Aziz Jalali, Abbas Zamanian, Gholamhossein Ghaffarpour |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2014-01-01
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Series: | Advanced Biomedical Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.advbiores.net/article.asp?issn=2277-9175;year=2014;volume=3;issue=1;spage=112;epage=112;aulast=Rasi |
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