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[The use of plasma stream for the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis]
Khirurgiia
|December 21, 2010
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80 patients with chronic osteomyelitis were treated. Plasma stream was used in complex treatment in 53,75%, which gave the notably less amount of unsatisfactory results of treatment, then in those patients, who were treated without the use of plasma stream. Therefore, authors declare, that a plasma stream allows the intensification of surgical treatment of osteomyelitis.
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