Maggots and leeches: When science and aesthetics collide

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 12-16+106

  Dossey, Larry ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; DECUBITUS; ESTHETICS; FLY; HUMAN; LARVA; LEECH; LEG ULCER; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; DEBRIDEMENT; ESTHETICS; HUMANS; LARVA; LEECHES; NECROSIS; UNITED STATES; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0036314734     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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