Pulmonary mycetoma due to Candida albicans: Case report and review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 133-135

  Shelly, Mark A ^a   Poe, Robert H ^a   Kapner, Louis B ^a  

^a Highland Hospital Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MYCETOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030071299     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.1.133     Document Type: Article

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