Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nouri Majalan, Nader ^a   Moghimi, Mansour ^a  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MICROSCOPY; MUCORMYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANNICULITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NODULE; SKIN SURGERY;

EID: 45149119354     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-2-112     Document Type: Article

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