Apophysomyces elegans causing acute otogenic cervicofacial zygomycosis involving salivary glands

Medical Mycology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 457-461

  Goyal, Amit ^a   Tyagi, Isha ^a   Syal, Rajan ^a   Marak, R S K ^a   Singh, Jagdeep ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Apophysomyces elegans; Salivary gland; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; INSULIN;

ADULT; APOPHYSOMYCES ELEGANS; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DEBRIDEMENT; DETERIORATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSPNEA; EAR INJURY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; ODYNOPHAGIA; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OTOGENIC CERVICOFACIAL ZYGOMYCOSIS; SALIVARY GLAND; STRIDOR; TACHYPNEA; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; OTITIS; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTITIS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SIALADENITIS;

APOPHYSOMYCES ELEGANS;

EID: 34547612280     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701320600     Document Type: Article

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