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Podoconiosis, non-filarial elephantiasis, and lymphology.
Several recent reviews of podoconiosis already exist in journals and on public access websites. After briefly covering the historical and epidemiological background, this narrative review will therefore attempt explicitly to link podoconiosis with lymphology, examining gaps in what is known of pathogenesis and identifying the areas of research in which input from lymphologists is most required....
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nf +i reniove a disability due to the heaviness the elephantoid limb (Chatterji, loc. cit). ^ evertheless, there is also a feeling that amputaJ!on the affected limb is a measure of treatment of filariasis. Maitland (1891) says that when the health of the patient is harassed by constantly recurring attacks of inflammation, the lnjib must be amputated This seems to indicate that amputation would ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1930
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.3651.1079