Microsurgery: Transplantation and Replantation by Harry J. Buncke, MD, et al.
  Table of Contents / Chapter 40:
The Use of Medicinal Leeches in Microsurgery
 
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21. Sawyer, R.T., Munro, R., and Hechtel, H.: Adaptive significance of prolonged bleeding in leech bites. Presented at 2nd international Conference of Leech Scientists, Ottawa, Canada, June 24, 1988.

22. Dickson, W.A., Boothman, P., and Hare, K.: An unusual source of hospital wound infection. Br. Med. J. 289:1727, 1984.

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