Localized cutaneous cryptococcosis in a patient with chronic myeloproliferative disease [1]

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 674-676

  Ebara, Naoki ^a,b   Kobayashi, Nobuhiko ^a   Asada, Hideo ^a   Toyohara, Masahisa ^a   Yoshikawa, Masahide ^a   Miyagawa, Sachiko ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic myeloproliferative disease; Cutaneous cryptococcosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; FLUCONAZOLE; HYDROXYUREA; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CUTANEOUS CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER;

EID: 25144484450     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2005.tb00821.x     Document Type: Letter

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