Successful treatment of subcutaneous Scytalidium hyalinum infection with voriconazole and topical terbinafine in a cardiac transplant patient

Transplantation

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 780-782

  Sriaroon, Chakrapol ^a,c   Vincent, Albert L ^a   Silapunt, Sirunya ^b   Chandler, Abbigail ^a   Houston, Sally H ^a   Greene, John N ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TERBINAFINE; VALGANCICLOVIR; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART GRAFT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; MYCOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCYTALIDIUM HYALINUM INFECTION; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; ERYTHEMA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NAPHTHALENES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 40849135690     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181664ecb     Document Type: Letter

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