Identification of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in adrenal glands biopsies of two patients with paracoccidioidomycosis and adrenal insufficiency

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-48

  Agudelo, Carlos Andrés ^a,b,c,e   Muñoz, Carolina ^a   Ramírez, Alex ^a   Gutierrez, Jonhairo ^b   Velez, Santiago ^a   Perez, Juan Camilo ^b   Velez, Alejandro ^a,b   Tobon, Angela Maria ^c,d   Restrepo, Angela ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

^b HOSPITAL PABLO TOBÓN URIBE   (Colombia)

^c Medical and Experimental Mycology Unit   (Mexico)

^d E S E Hospital La María   (Colombia)

^e Unidad de Biología Celular y Molecular   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Adrenal insufficiency; Cortisol; Paracoccidioidomycosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INOTROPIC AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADRENAL BIOPSY; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EVENING DOSAGE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; RELAPSE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; FLUDROCORTISONE; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PREDNISONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 60849122551     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652009000100008     Document Type: Article

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