Surgical debulking of podoconiosis nodules and its impact on quality of life in Ethiopia.

Wendemagegne Enbiale Kristien Verdonck Melesse GebeyehuJohan van GriensvenHenry John Christiaan de Vries

Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2021)

Nodulectomy in podoconiosis patients leads to a significant improvement in the quality of life with no serious complications, and we recommend this to be a standard procedure in resource-poor settings.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
squamous cell carcinoma
risk factors
minimally invasive
radiation therapy
lymph node
rectal cancer