Low intensity laser therapy is comparable to bromcriptine evening primrose oil for the treatment of clyclical mastalgia in Egyptian females
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Low intensity laser therapy is comparable to bromocriptine-evening primrose oil for the treatment of cyclical mastalgia in Egyptian females.
One of the successful treatments for cyclical mastalgia is bromocriptine evening primrose combination. A double blind study was applied on 80 patients with cyclical mastalgia. They were randomly divided into two groups (A and B). In group A, patients were treated by bromocriptine/evening primrose. To group B, LILT with specified dosimetry was applied, using a device that delivers He-Ne laser co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tanzania Journal of Health Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0856-6496
DOI: 10.4314/thrb.v9i3.14330