Mycobacterium haemophilum: Cutanoeus nodules in a renal transplant patient

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Rajpara, Anand ^a   Sri, Jennifer ^a   Driscoll, Marcia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEG DISEASE; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOSIS; PANNICULITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRURIGO; REMISSION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CALCIFICATION; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN NODULE; SKIN ULCER; SUPPURATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 77958146744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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