Obesity-Associated Abdominal Elephantiasis

Abdominal elephantiasis is a rare entity. Abdominal elephantiasis is an uncommon, but deformative and progressive cutaneous disease caused by chronic lymphedema and recurrent streptococcal or Staphylococcus infections of the abdominal wall. We present 3 cases of patients with morbid obesity who pres...

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Autores principales: Kohli, Ritesh, Argento, Vivian, Amoateng-Adjepong, Yaw
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23606857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/626739

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23606857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/626739

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