Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review

Mucormycosis is a fungal disease that may rarely invade the gastrointestinal tract of newborn, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Clinically, it may be indistinguishable from the neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and the diagnosis is usually made on autopsy or histopathology of excised surg...

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Autor principal: Sarin, Yogesh Kumar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124665
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.71753
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description Mucormycosis is a fungal disease that may rarely invade the gastrointestinal tract of newborn, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Clinically, it may be indistinguishable from the neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and the diagnosis is usually made on autopsy or histopathology of excised surgical specimen. We report a neonatal survivor of the illness.
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spelling pubmed-29809322010-12-01 Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review Sarin, Yogesh Kumar J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Mucormycosis is a fungal disease that may rarely invade the gastrointestinal tract of newborn, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Clinically, it may be indistinguishable from the neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and the diagnosis is usually made on autopsy or histopathology of excised surgical specimen. We report a neonatal survivor of the illness. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2980932/ /pubmed/21124665 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.71753 Text en © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons 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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Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review
title Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review
title_full Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review
title_fullStr Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review
title_full_unstemmed Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review
title_short Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review
title_sort intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: a case report and review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124665
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.71753
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