Angioinvasive pulmonary mucormycosis presenting as multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules in a patient without obvious predisposing factors

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Sharma, Aman ^a   Gupta, V ^a   Singh, R S ^a   Kakkar, N ^a   Singh, S ^a   Bambery, P ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Angioinvasive pulmonary mucormycosis; Fungal infection; Pulmonary mucormycosis; Pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MYCOSIS; PULMONARY MUCORMYCOSIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 54949088974     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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