Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis with cryosurgery

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 749-752

  Panagiotopoulos, Antonios ^a,b   Stavropoulos, Panagiotis G ^a   Hasapi, Vassiliki ^a   Papakonstantinou, Anastasia Metaxia ^a   Petridis, Athanassios ^a   Katsambas, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID NITROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RELAPSE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24944525834     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2005.02628.x     Document Type: Article

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