Surgical management of scrotal elephantiasis: a two severe cases report
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Scrotal Elephantiasis
an early mpjfcality of twenty-seven per cent, in sixty-one cases of operation for Scrotal Elephantiasis reported by Fayrer Oh" referring to my published record of these cases, I obsor-ve that the total number of cases operated upon during, .the yea-s, 1859 to 1871 amounted to 193, of which 35, or a fraction over 18 per cent., proved fatal. This is befit'dr than represented by Koch's, as above q...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cirugía Plástica Ibero-Latinoamericana
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0376-7892
DOI: 10.4321/s0376-78922014000200010