Disseminated Cryptococcus infection in a liver-transplant recipient presenting with a chronic scalp eruption

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 655-656

  Ladoyanni, E ^a   Pereira, M ^a   Struthers, K ^a   Chen, K ^a   Haydon, G ^b   Mutimer, D ^b   Elias, E ^b   Ilchyshyn, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; FOLINATE CALCIUM; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DERMATOMYCOSES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; SCALP DERMATOSES;

EID: 49649129460     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2008.02781.x     Document Type: Letter

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