Rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a pregnant woman with diabetic ketoacidosis

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 592-594

  Trivedi, T H ^a   Jadhav, D L ^a   Yeolekar, M E ^a   Shejale, S B ^a   Pereira, O T ^a   Varaiya, A Y ^a   Tendolkar, U M ^a   Mathur, M ^a  

^a Lokmanya Tilak Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MUCORMYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUCORMYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS;

EID: 0036526799     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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