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Revista Cubana de Ortopedia y Traumatología
versão On-line ISSN 1561-3100
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ESCARPANTER BULIES, Julio César. Oxygen-ozone therapy as a coadjuvant in the treatment of bone infections. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 2005, vol.19, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3100.
A study of the treatment of bone infections that combines traditional methods with the use of ozone therapy in its diverse modes of application wasconducted. A sample of 22 patients affected with chronic osteomyelitis that were treated by using the conventional methods for more than 6 months and with histories of frequent relapses and remission times of the supurative picture of no more than 6 months was taken. A combined treatment with local and systemic ozone was added. The results obtained after the ozone therapy were encouraging in 73 % of the patients. Those results together with its easy obtention and its unexpensive use allowed to recommend it as a coadjuvant treatment in this type of complication,
Palavras-chave : Ozone therapy; oxygen; osteomyelitis; sepsis.