A case of rhinocerebral mucormycosis presenting with Garcin syndrome;Garcin sendromuyla kendini gösteren rinoserebral mukormikoz olgusu

Klimik Dergisi

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-190

  Özkul, Ayça ^a   Başak, Sema ^a   Ertuǧrul, Mustafa Bülent ^a   Odabaşi, Onur ^a   Özgeçen Dinçel, Hasibe ^a   Öztürk, Barçin ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain; Cranial nerves; Garcin syndrome; Mucormycosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GARCIN SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MUCORMYCOSIS; NOSE NECROSIS; NOSE ULCER; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 84862693448     PISSN: 1301143X     EISSN: 13091484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/kd.2011.46     Document Type: Article

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