Rhinocerebral mucormycosis: Results of aggressive surgical debridement and amphotericin B

Laryngoscope

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 1988, Pages 1339-1342

  Ochi, James W ^a   Harris, Jeffrey P ^a   Feldman, Jeffrey I ^a   Press, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPHOTERICIN B; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; ETHMOID BONE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MIDDLE AGE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NOSE DISEASES; SPHENOID BONE;

EID: 0024237511     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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