Cellulitis and Nodular Skin Lesions Due to Fusarium spp in Liver Transplant: Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 599-600

  Halpern, M ^a   Balbi, E ^a   Carius, L ^a   Roma, J ^a   Gonzalez, A C ^a   Agoglia, L ^a   Covelo, M ^a   Araujo, A ^a   Guedes, C ^a   Alves, J ^a   Enne, M ^a   Martinho, J M ^a   Pacheco, L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GERAL DE BONSUCESSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CEFALEXIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; POLYENE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; FUSARIUM; HEPATITIS B; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOBULAR PANNICULITIS; MALAISE; MALE; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PANNICULITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN NODULE; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AMPHOTERICIN B; BIOPSY; CELLULITIS; FUSARIUM; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PYRIMIDINES; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 77949481611     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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