Paracoccidioidomycosis: Report of 2 cases mimicking squamous cell carcinoma

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 609-613

  Meneses García, Abelardo ^a   Mosqueda Taylor, Adalberto ^b   Morales de La Luz, Rosario ^a   Ruíz Godoy Rivera, Luz María ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE SISTEMAS BIOLÓGICOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS;

EID: 0036834925     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.129179     Document Type: Article

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