A 48-year-old man with laryngeal mass and vocal cord palsy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Schroeder, Daniel ^a   Foguena, Alain Kenfak ^b   Cometta, Alain ^b,d   Greub, Gilbert ^b,c   Cavassini, Matthias ^b  

^a Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery ^*  (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d Etablissements Hospitaliers du Nord Vaudois   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNGEAL BIOPSY; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; MUCOSAL LEISHMANIASIS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; LARYNGEAL MUCOSA; LARYNGOSCOPY; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 77952996583     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652859     Document Type: Article

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