African histoplasmosis: Osteomyelitis of the radius

Mycoses

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 105-107

  Onwuasoigwe, O ^a,b   Gugnani, H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b NONE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

African histoplasmosis; Histoplasmosis; Osteomyelitis; Radius

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BONE LESION; CASE REPORT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS;

EID: 0031808938     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.1998.tb00309.x     Document Type: Article

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