The re-usable medicinal leech [6]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1358-1359

  Aslan, Gürcan ^a,b   Terzioglu, Ahmet ^a   Tuncali, Dogan ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIRUDIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LEECH; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN DISEASE;

HUMANS; LEECHING;

EID: 0037333499     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200303000-00063     Document Type: Letter

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