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Serratia marcescens infected silk suture rejected by combined
acupuncture moxibustion and low power laser therapy from the abdominal
fascia
Sternfeld M, Finkelstein Y, Hod I
Am J Chin Med 1988;16(1-2):81-2
Kaplan Hospital, Pulmonary Unit, Rehovot, Israel.
Upper abdominal pains lasting 12 years after cholecystectomy, were improved
in an 82-year-old woman following the rejection of indigestable silk
surgical sutures induced by combined therapy of acupuncture, moxibustion and
low-power laser beam irradiation directed to an old post-cholecystectomy
scar. An inflammatory reaction followed by granulation tissue mass was
developed. Embedded in the granulation tissue were the above mentioned silk
sutures which finally were expelled through the skin at the operation scar.
A surgical procedure suggested to the patient, in case of acupuncture
therapy failure, was obviously avoided. Serratia-marcescens infection of the
expelled material was bacteriologically defined.
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