Detection of spirochetal micro-organisms by focus-floating microscopy in necrobiotic xanthogranuloma

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1026-1030

  Zelger, Bernhard ^a   Eisendle, Klaus ^a   Mensing, Christian ^c   Zelger, Bettina ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 23S;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOCUS FLOATING MICROSCOPY; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NECROBIOTIC DISORDER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SPIROCHETE; XANTHOGRANULOMA;

ADULT; AGED; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROBIOTIC DISORDERS; XANTHOMATOSIS;

EID: 36049052280     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2007.05.016     Document Type: Article

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