Mycotic cysts: Report of 21 cases including eight pheomycotic cysts from Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 388-392

  Sheikh, Salwa S ^a,b   Amr, Samir S ^a  

^a DHAHRAN HEALTH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GANGLION; GIANT CELL TUMOR; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIPOMA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; SAUDI ARABIA; SEBACEOUS CYST; TENDON SHEATH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATOMYCOSES; EPIDERMAL CYST; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOOT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 34247142490     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2007.03179.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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