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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1692-7273</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Ciencias de la Salud]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Cienc. Salud]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1692-7273</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Editorial Universidad del Rosario]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1692-72732004000200006</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Biocirugía: utilización de larvas de insectos necrófagos en la curación de heridas. La terapia larval]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Biosurgery: using necrophagous larvae for healing wounds. Larval therapy]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sánchez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Magda Carolina]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A01"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Chuaire]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Lilián]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A02"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Narváez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Raúl]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A03"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Segura]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Nidya Alexandra]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A04"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="A01">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad del Rosario Facultad de Medicina Instituto de Ciencias Básicas]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="A02">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad del Rosario Facultad de Medicina Instituto de Ciencias Básicas]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="A03">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad del Rosario Facultad de Medicina Instituto de Ciencias Básicas]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="A04">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad del Rosario Facultad de Medicina Instituto de Ciencias Básicas]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2004</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2004</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>156</fpage>
<lpage>164</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1692-72732004000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1692-72732004000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1692-72732004000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[La terapia larval es una técnica que permite aplicar las larvas de algunas especies de dípteros sobre heridas crónicas o sobre focos de infección localizados, con la finalidad de restaurar el tejido afectado. La velocidad y la eficacia del tratamiento, sumadas a la casi nula pérdida de tejido sano durante el proceso de reparación tisular, han hecho de la terapia larval o biocirugía una alternativa viable para la curación de heridas asociadas con entidades como pie diabético, úlceras venosas, úlceras crónicas de la piel y quemaduras, así como de ciertos tipos de tumores benignos, abscesos y osteomielitis. Aunque la medicina moderna ha sido, en muchos casos, reticente a la aplicación de terapias de esta índole, eventos como la resistencia a los antibióticos y las alteraciones en el proceso de cicatrización en las heridas crónicas han permitido modificar la posición inicial de muchos médicos al respecto.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Larval therapy is a technique that allows the use of larva of some diptera species on chronic wounds or localized infected focuses, in order to promote the affected tissue restoration. The treatment velocity and efficacy, with almost no healthy tissue loses during the process, have made larval therapy (sometimes called biosurgery) a viable alternative for healing wounds associated with entities as diabetic foot, venous ulcers, cutaneous chronic ulcers and burns, and some benign tumors, abscesses and osteomyelitis. Although modern medicine has been, in many cases, reticent on the application of this kind of therapies, events as antibiotic resistance and alterations in cicatrization process in chronic wounds, have modified the respective initial point of view of many doctors.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[historia]]></kwd>
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