Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Marsden, Philip Davis¹  Barreto, Air Colombo¹  Univesidade de Brasília¹  Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro Llanos¹  Torre, Douglas¹ 

关键词: Leishmaniasis;    Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis;    Cryotherapy;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86821983000200004

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

The use of cryotherapy as an adjunct to systemic antimonial therapy (Clucantime) was studied in 17 patients with a total of23 skin lesions of leishmaniasis in an area where L. braziliensis braziliensis is the species in circulation. Cryotherapy did not speed healing and has been discarded as an auxiliary therapeutic measure in our practice. However this technique may be suitable for species o/Leishmania causing more limited superficial lesions in man without the danger of metastasis.

【 授权许可】

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