Clinical uses of the medicinal leech: A practical review

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-71

  Porshinsky, B S ^a   Saha, S ^a   Grossman, M D ^b   Beery II, P R ^a   Stawicki, Spa ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St Luke's Regional Level i Trauma Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Contraindications; Hirudotherapy; Indications; Medicinal leech

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARGATROBAN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CORTICOSTEROID; DICLOFENAC; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRIMETHOPRIM; WARFARIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE GRAFT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FOREHEAD FLAP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRACILIS FLAP; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEMATOMA; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LEECH; LEECHING; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PENILE REPLANTATION; PERFORATOR FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; REIMPLANTATION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; THERAPY EFFECT; TISSUE FLAP; TONGUE SWELLING; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN OCCLUSION; VENOUS CONGESTION; VIBRIOSIS;

ANIMALS; HIRUDIN THERAPY; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LEECHING; REPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 79951521142     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.74297     Document Type: Review

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