External iliac artery stent mucormycosis in a renal transplant patient

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 253-257

  Liapis, Christos D ^a   Petrikkos, Georgios L ^a   Paraskevas, Kosmas I ^a,b   Skiada, Anna ^a   Nikolaou, Alex C ^a   Tzortzis, Giorgos ^a   Kostakis, Alkiviadis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EMBOLECTOMY; EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 33646501946     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-006-9007-1     Document Type: Article

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