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Fernando A Herrera1, Karen Horton, Ahmed Suliman
1The Buncke Clinic and Department of Microsurgery, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. fherrera@ucsd.edu
The Journal of Hand Surgery
|September 11, 2007
Abstract:
We discuss an unusual case of Aeromonas hydrophila infection in a partially amputated digit from contaminated animal products resulting in delayed vascular thrombosis and amputation.
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