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Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 149-152 , December 2008

Patterns of Acupuncture Practice and Acupoint Usage in Brazil: The Fortaleza Experience

Sergio Botelho Guimarães
- Associate Professor of Surgery, Head, Medical Acupuncture Division and Surgical Research Laboratory (LABCEX), Universidade Federal do Ceard (UFC), Brazil
- Corresponding author. Associate Professor of Surgery, Head, Medical Acupuncture Division and Surgical Research Laboratory (LABCEX), Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Brazil
Agamenon Honorio da Silva
- Attending physician, acupuncture specialist, Posto de Saúde Meireles, Brazilian Health System (SUS), Fortaleza, Brazil
- Post-Graduate Fellow (Master's Degree, UFC) and attending physician, acupuncture specialist, Posto de Saúde Meireles, Brazilian Health System (SUS), Fortaleza, Brazil
Jorge Montenegro Braga
- Attending physician, acupuncture specialist, Posto de Saúde Meireles, Brazilian Health System (SUS), Fortaleza, Brazil

Received 25 April 2008 ,Accepted 9 October 2008.

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