A fatal pseudo-tumour: Disseminated basidiobolomycosis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  van den Berk, Guido E L ^a   Noorduyn, L Arnold ^a   van Ketel, Ruud J ^a   van Leeuwen, Jeannouel ^b   Bemelman, Willem A ^a   Prins, Jan M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Surgery   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASIDIOBOLUS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER SIZE; MALE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOTUMOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ENTOMOPHTHORALES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 33749016465     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-140     Document Type: Article

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