Cancrum oris: Management, incidence, and implications of human immunodeficiency virus in Zambia

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 350-357

  Nath, Shambhu ^a   Jovic, Goran ^a  

^a University Teaching Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); ARTICLE; CHILD; DIET THERAPY; EATING HABIT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LIP RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMATITIS; TRISMUS; ZAMBIA;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHINOPLASTY; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL RATE; ZAMBIA;

EID: 0031871221     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199808000-00008     Document Type: Article

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