Rare lower extremity invasive fungal infection in an immunosuppressed patient: Exserohilum longirostratum

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Al Attar, Ali ^b   Williams, Christopher G ^b   Redett, Richard J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; GATIFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VORICONAZOLE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; EXSEROHILUM LONGIROSTRATUM; FUNGUS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LABORATORY TEST; LEG ULCER; MALE; MYCOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE; COMORBIDITY; HEPATITIS C; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CELLULITIS; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEG ULCER; MALE; MYCOSES; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 33645740369     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000200637.31987.7b     Document Type: Article

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