Disseminated sporotrichosis presenting with granulomatous inflammatory multiple mononeuropathies

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 866-872

  Mauermann, Michelle L ^a   Klein, Christopher J ^a   Orenstein, Robert ^a   Dyck, P James B ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Granuloma; Immunosuppression; Multiple mononeuropathies; Peripheral neuropathy; Sporotrichosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AZATHIOPRINE; ITRACONAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ERYTHEMA; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; JOINT BIOPSY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MONONEUROPATHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; VASCULITIS;

ABSCESS; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMATITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOREARM; GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 37049012886     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20830     Document Type: Article

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