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Does the Benefit of Salvage Amputation Always Outweigh Disability in Drug-Failure Mycetoma?: A Tale of Two Cases

It is popularly believed that eumycetoma cases should be dealt with using surgical amputation for a better chance of cure especially when chemotherapy has failed. However, amputation leads to disability on one hand and on the other it may also fail to be curative. We present two cases with contrasti...

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Autores principales: Maiti, Prasanta K, Chakraborty, Bipasa, Ghosh, Sudipta, De, Abhishek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25657401
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.147799