Cervicofacial Lymphadenitis Due to Atypical Mycobacteria: A Surgical Disease

Pediatric Dermatology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-29

  Pumberger, Wolfgang ^a   Hallwirth, Ulrike ^a   Pawlowsky, Johanna ^b   Pomberger, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CERVICOFACIAL LYMPHADENITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MANDIBULAR NERVE PARALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MALMOENSE; NERVE PARALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUBERCULIN TEST; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 1342325333     PISSN: 07368046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0736-8046.2004.21111.x     Document Type: Article

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