Tungiasis presenting with whitish nodules on the feet [16]

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-248

  Marrero, M D ^a   Nagore, E ^b   Igual Adell, R ^a   Rodriguez Calabuig D ^c   Castejon P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FRANCESC DE BORJA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c Centro de Salud de Oliva   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIABENDAZOLE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CURETTAGE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EXCISION; FEMALE; FLEA; HUMAN; LETTER; PARASITOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN INCISION; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN NODULE; TRAVEL;

ANIMALS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; FOOT DERMATOSES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037359075     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2003.00577_16.x     Document Type: Letter

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