Histological Diagnosis of Madura Foot (Mycetoma): A Must for Definitive Treatment

Mycetoma, an uncommon chronic infection of skin and subcutaneous tissues in tropical countries is caused by true fungi (eumycetoma) or by filamentous bacteria (actinomycetoma). Since the treatment of these two etiologies is entirely different, a definite diagnosis after histopathological and microbi...

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Autores principales: Alam, Kiran, Maheshwari, Veena, Bhargava, Shruti, Jain, Anshu, Fatima, Uroos, Haq, Ershad ul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300390
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.52985
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author Alam, Kiran
Maheshwari, Veena
Bhargava, Shruti
Jain, Anshu
Fatima, Uroos
Haq, Ershad ul
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description Mycetoma, an uncommon chronic infection of skin and subcutaneous tissues in tropical countries is caused by true fungi (eumycetoma) or by filamentous bacteria (actinomycetoma). Since the treatment of these two etiologies is entirely different, a definite diagnosis after histopathological and microbiological examination is mandatory. We hereby present five cases of Madura foot.
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spelling pubmed-28409372010-03-18 Histological Diagnosis of Madura Foot (Mycetoma): A Must for Definitive Treatment Alam, Kiran Maheshwari, Veena Bhargava, Shruti Jain, Anshu Fatima, Uroos Haq, Ershad ul J Glob Infect Dis Case Report Mycetoma, an uncommon chronic infection of skin and subcutaneous tissues in tropical countries is caused by true fungi (eumycetoma) or by filamentous bacteria (actinomycetoma). Since the treatment of these two etiologies is entirely different, a definite diagnosis after histopathological and microbiological examination is mandatory. We hereby present five cases of Madura foot. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2840937/ /pubmed/20300390 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.52985 Text en © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Alam, Kiran
Maheshwari, Veena
Bhargava, Shruti
Jain, Anshu
Fatima, Uroos
Haq, Ershad ul
Histological Diagnosis of Madura Foot (Mycetoma): A Must for Definitive Treatment
title Histological Diagnosis of Madura Foot (Mycetoma): A Must for Definitive Treatment
title_full Histological Diagnosis of Madura Foot (Mycetoma): A Must for Definitive Treatment
title_fullStr Histological Diagnosis of Madura Foot (Mycetoma): A Must for Definitive Treatment
title_full_unstemmed Histological Diagnosis of Madura Foot (Mycetoma): A Must for Definitive Treatment
title_short Histological Diagnosis of Madura Foot (Mycetoma): A Must for Definitive Treatment
title_sort histological diagnosis of madura foot (mycetoma): a must for definitive treatment
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300390
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.52985
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