Rhinocerebral mucormycosis: Literature review apropos of a rare entity

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Teixeira, Carla Alexandra ^a   Medeiros, Pedro Bettencourt ^a   Leushner, Pedro ^a   Almeida, Fernanda ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MUCORMYCOSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE SMEAR; NOSE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; PUS; RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875987952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-008552     Document Type: Article

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