Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis: Morphologic findings in a cluster of six cases

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 610-616

  Yousef, Omar M ^b   Smilack, Jerry D ^b   Kerr, David M ^b   Ramsey, Robert ^b   Rosati, Louis ^b   Colby, Thomas V ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Basidiobolus; Eosinophils; Gastrointestinal; Granuloma; Hyalohyphomycosis; Mycosis; Splendore Hoeppli; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASIDIOBOLOMYCOSIS; BASIDIOBOLUS RANARUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON PERFORATION; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033491252     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/112.5.610     Document Type: Article

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