Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in a Patient with Multiple Injuries: A Case Presentation and Review of the Literature

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1016-1019

  Aboutanos, Michel B ^a   Joshi, Manjari ^a   Scalea, Thomas M ^a  

^a R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MUCORMYCOSIS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RHIZOPUS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; FUNGUS GROWTH; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESUSCITATION; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE CULTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ULNA FRACTURE; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RHIZOPUS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFAZOLIN; GENTAMICIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

EID: 0038544433     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000023169.90650.6B     Document Type: Article

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