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Embolia cutis medicamentosa (Nicolau syndrome) after endodontic treatment: a case report

Jan-Falco Wilbrand1, Martina Wilbrand, Heidrun Schaaf

  • 1Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany. jan-falco.wilbrand@uniklinikum-giessen.de

Journal of Endodontics
|July 27, 2011
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