Successful Treatment of Rhinomaxillary Form of Mucormycosis Infection After Liver Transplantation: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1445-1447

  Vetrone, G ^a   Grazi, G L ^a   Ercolani, G ^a   Ravaioli, M ^a   Faenza, S ^a   Enrico, B ^a   Tumietto, F ^a   Pinna, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LETHARGY; LEUKEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAXILLA; MAXILLARY SINUS; MUCOR; MUCORMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745194776     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.02.102     Document Type: Article

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