Picture quiz : Immunocompromised patient with an ulcerated nasolabial skin lesion

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7749, 2010, Pages

  Prokopakis, Emmanuel P ^a   Panagiotaki, Irene E ^a   Papadakis, Ioannis A ^a   Vardouniotis, Alexios S ^a   Lagoudianakis, George M ^a   Velegrakis, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; MILTEFOSINE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NOTE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LIP DISEASE; NOSE DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; SKIN ULCER;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS; LIP DISEASES; MALE; NOSE DISEASES; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 77950556932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1444     Document Type: Note

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