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Prolonged venous bleeding due to traditional treatment with leech bite: a case report
INTRODUCTION: The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, has been used in the treatment of many diseases for thousands of years. In Turkey, it is used most commonly in the management of venous diseases of lower extremities. CASE PRESENTATION: A 25-year-old Turkish woman presented to our emergency room...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108320/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-172 |