Does the benefit of salvage amputation always outweigh disability in drug-failure mycetoma?: A tale of two cases
It is popularly believed that eumycetoma cases should be dealt with using surgical amputation for a better chance of cure especially when chemotherapy has failed. However, amputation leads to disability on one hand and on the other it may also fail to be curative. We present two cases with contrasti...
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Main Authors: | Prasanta K Maiti (Author), Bipasa Chakraborty (Author), Sudipta Ghosh (Author), Abhishek De (Author) |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications,
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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