Spinal cord injury: Using maggots to ease the pressure

Wounds UK

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-85

  Cullen, Anne ^a  

^a Larkhall Health Clinic   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GABAPENTIN; LACTULOSE; SUDOCREM; TRAMADOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; DEBRIDEMENT; DECUBITUS; EPITHELIZATION; EVENING DOSAGE; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE INJURY; LONG TERM CARE; MAGGOT THERAPY; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN NECROSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 64549121171     PISSN: 17466814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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