Paediatric cutaneous blastomycosis: A rare case diagnosed on FNAC

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-121

  Shukla, Shailaja ^a   Singh, Smita ^a   Jain, Manjula ^a   Singh, Sanjeet Kumar ^a   Chander, Ram ^a   Kawatra, Neha ^a  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Blastomycosis; Fine needle aspiration cytology; Lesions

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FUNGUS SPORE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERKERATOSIS; MALE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CHILD; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; MALE;

EID: 59449097278     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20968     Document Type: Article

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