Acremonium mycetoma in a heart transplant recipient

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1095-1100

  Geyer, Adam S ^a   Fox, Lindy P ^a   Husain, Sameera ^a   Della Latta, Phyllis ^b   Grossman, Marc E ^a  

^a Departments of Dermatology   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUCONAZOLE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TSUKUBAENOLIDE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACREMONIUM; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; EUMYCETOMA; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY;

ACREMONIUM; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; FOOT DERMATOSES; GAMBIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ITRACONAZOLE; MADUROMYCOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33750823746     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2006.08.001     Document Type: Review

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