Fatal disseminated mucormycosis in an immunocompotent patient: A case report and literature review

International Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1468-1471

  Sarrami, Amir Hossein ^a   Setareh, Mehrdad ^a   Izadinejad, Masoud ^b   Afshar Moghaddam, Noushin ^a   Baradaran Mahdavi, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Meidani, Mohsen ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Legal Medicine Center of Isfahan   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Immune system; Mucormycosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; COUGHING; CRACKLE; DETERIORATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPNEA; FAT NECROSIS; FATALITY; FEVER; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPOTENT PATIENT; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PANCREAS HEMORRHAGE; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PATIENT; PERFORATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RARE DISEASE; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN PERFORATION; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 84890828330     PISSN: 20087802     EISSN: 20088213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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