Pulmonary cryptococcoma with involvement of the chest wall in an immunocompetent patient;Criptococoma pulmonar con invasion toracica en un varon inmunocompetente

Medicina

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 166-168

  Pisarevsky, Ana A ^a   Larriera, Alejandro ^a   Cean, Pilar ^a   Petrucci, Enrique A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Criptococcoma; Cryptococcus gattii; Immunocompetent

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PULMONARY CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; THORAX WALL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SHOULDER;

CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHOULDER;

EID: 79952527172     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: 16699106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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