Obesity-Associated Abdominal Elephantiasis
Abdominal elephantiasis is a rare entity. Abdominal elephantiasis is an uncommon, but deformative and progressive cutaneous disease caused by chronic lymphedema and recurrent streptococcal or Staphylococcus infections of the abdominal wall. We present 3 cases of patients with morbid obesity who pres...
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Main Authors: | Ritesh Kohli, Vivian Argento, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2013-01-01
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Series: | Case Reports in Medicine |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/626739 |
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