Lymphangitic sporotrichosis: An uncommon bilateral localization

Mycopathologia

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 69-71

  Tomimori Yamashita, Jane ^a   Takahashi, Carla H ^a   Fischman, Olga ^a   Costa, Enilde B ^a   Michalany, Nílceo S ^a   Alchorne, Maurício M A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Lymphatic; Potassium iodide; Sporothrix schenckii; Sporotrichosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; POTASSIUM IODIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEG; LYMPHANGITIS; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SKIN DISEASE; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; HUMANS; LEG; LEG DERMATOSES; LYMPHANGITIS; MALE; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

FUNGI; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

EID: 0031679176     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006917326804     Document Type: Article

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