Identification of the asexual state of Rhizopus species on histologic tissue sections in a patient with rhinocerebral mucormycosis

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 883-887

  Ciesla, Marlyn C ^a   Kammeyer, Patricia L ^a   Yeldandi, Vijay ^a   Petruzzelli, Guy J ^a   Yong, Sherri L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COLONY FORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; RHIZOPUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS; TISSUE SECTION;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN DISEASES; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHIZOPUS;

EID: 0034047109     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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