Rhinocerebral mucormycosis: The disease spectrum in 27 patients

Mycoses

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 290-296

  Mohindra, Sandeep ^a   Mohindra, Satyawati ^a   Gupta, Rahul ^a   Bakshi, Jaimanti ^a   Gupta, Sunil Kumar ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cranio facial; Mucormycosis; Predisposing factors; Rhinocerebral

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; POVIDONE IODINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INFECTION; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; ORBIT; PARANASAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPHOTERICIN B; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOR; MUCORMYCOSIS;

MUCOR;

EID: 34250326755     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01364.x     Document Type: Article

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