Maggot therapy and the "yuk" factor: An issue for the patient? [1]

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 350-352

  Steenvoorde, Pascal ^a   Buddingh, Thijmen J ^a   Van Engeland, Anneke ^a   Oskam, Jacques ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLY; HUMAN; LARVA; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND; WOUND CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 20544452324     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1067-1927.2005.130319.x     Document Type: Letter

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