A history of noma, the "face of poverty"

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1702-1707

  Marck, Klaas W ^a,b,c  

^a MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^b Noma Children's Hospital   (Nigeria)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G; SULFONAMIDE;

ANAMNESIS; CANKER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUROPE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCONTINENCE; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; STOMATITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRISMUS; VINCENT STOMATITIS;

CHILD; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; NOMA; PORTRAITS; POVERTY; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 0037446483     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000055445.84307.3C     Document Type: Review

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