Observation on Limnatis nilotica, oropharyngeal leech, in Iraq
Journal of the Faculty of Medicine-Baghdad. 1995; 37 (1): 69-72
in English
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| ID: emr-37727
ABSTRACT
A female patient of 80 years old presented in the consultant room in Saddam Teaching Hospital/Najaf, on 23rd August 1993,complaining from hemoptysis of one month duration. Examination of throat revealed that a leech was fixed in oropharynx of the patient on the vallecula. Then the leech was removed out by a surgical method:
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IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
Main subject:
Oropharynx
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Pharynx
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Hemoptysis
Type of study:
Case report
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J. Fac. Med.-Baghdad
Year:
1995
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