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[Physiotherapeutic methods in the combined treatment of patients with lactation mastitis]
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova
|July 1, 1994
Abstract:
Physiotherapeutic methods of therapy were used in complex treatment of 839 from 1435 patients with lactic mastitis diadynamic currents, high frequent ultrasound, ultraviolet irradiation of the wounds, UHF, local oxygen therapy of the wounds combined with UVI. Comparative data of the results of the treatment methods evidence that the most efficient in local treatment are to be ultrasound and oxygen therapy of the mammary glands combined with ultraviolet irradiation.
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