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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...
Autores principales: | Kohli, Ritesh, Argento, Vivian, Amoateng-Adjepong, Yaw |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2013
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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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