Mycetoma in Yemen: Clinicoepidemiologic and histopathologic study

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 586-593

  Khatri, Mishri Lal ^a   Al Halali, Hussein Mohammed ^b   Khalid, Mohammed Fouad ^b   Saif, Sultan Ahmed ^b   Vyas, Mehesh Chandra R ^b  

^a Saudi Hospital at Hajjah   (Yemen)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; BONE INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS; GRAIN; GYNECOMASTIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MADURELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MYCETOMA; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOMYCES; YEMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MADURELLA; MADUROMYCOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; STREPTOMYCES; YEMEN;

EID: 0036751425     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.2002.01383.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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