A foot injury as a rare cause scedosporiosis with fatal outcome;Fußverletzung als seltene ursache einer scedosporiose mit letalem ausgang

Unfallchirurg

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 865-868

  Pennekamp, P H ^a,b   Diedrich, O ^a   Zhou, H ^b   Kraft, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Foot trauma; Fungal infection; Scedosporium apiospermum

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMA; DEBRIDEMENT; FATALITY; FOOT INJURY; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; SCEDOSPORIOSIS; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WOUND HEALING; BRAIN; HEEL; INJURY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MYCETOMA; PATHOLOGY; SCEDOSPORIUM; SKIN; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; DEBRIDEMENT; FATAL OUTCOME; FOOT INJURIES; HEEL; HUMANS; MADUROMYCOSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OSTEOMYELITIS; SCEDOSPORIUM; SKIN; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0242690188     PISSN: 01775537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00113-003-0652-3     Document Type: Article

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