Capacity building for the modified filarial hydrocelectomy technique in West Africa

Acta Tropica

Volumn 120, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Mante, S D ^a   Gueye, S M ^b  

^a West African Filariasis Morbidity Project   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Chylocele; Filarial hydrocele; Hydrocelectomy; Tunica Vaginalis

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; FILARIASIS; HEALTH EDUCATION; TEACHING; TRAINING;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CAPACITY BUILDING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GAMBIA; GHANA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; HYDROCELECTOMY; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; LIBERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MALI; NIGER; NIGERIA; OPERATION DURATION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SENEGAL; SIERRA LEONE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOGO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKSHOP;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MALE; TESTICULAR HYDROCELE;

BURKINA FASO; GAMBIA; GHANA; LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA]; MALI; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; NIGERIA; SENEGAL; SIERRA LEONE; TOGO;

EID: 80054010577     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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