Cutaneous zygomycosis: A case report and review of Japanese reports

Mycoses

Volumn 44, Issue 7-8, 2001, Pages 311-315

  Kobayashi, Mihoko ^a,b   Hiruma, M ^a,b   Matsushita, A ^a,b   Kawai, M ^a,b   Ogawa, H ^a,b   Udagawa, S ^c  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cutaneous infection; Immunocompromised host; Rhizopus microsporus var. microsporus; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; KETOCONAZOLE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISEASE COURSE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; JAPAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MUCORMYCOSIS; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; RASH; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; STEROID THERAPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS;

AGED; DERMATOMYCOSES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; RHIZOPUS; ZYGOMYCOTA;

FUNGI; MICROSPORUS; PURPURA; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS VAR. MICROSPORUS;

EID: 0035788351     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2001.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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