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Burden of hydrocoele assessed from medical and surgical records in a lymphatic filariasis endemic country, Samoa

BACKGROUND: Samoa is a Pacific Island country that has long been known to have a high burden of lymphatic filariasis. Little has been documented about the burden of disability due to the chronic complications of the disease. We examined the rates of hydrocoele amongst the Samoan male population to b...

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Autores principales: Ah Leong-Lui, Tile A., Graves, Patricia M., Naseri, Take
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31719790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-019-0179-0