Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis Resulting in a Catastrophic Outcome in an Immunocompetent Patient

We present a case of a middle-aged female who was admitted to the hospital with a respiratory infection and subsequently developed an acute surgical abdomen secondary to a perforated viscous. She was found to have mucormycosis of the intestinal tract and eventually succumbed to the sequelae of the i...

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Autores principales: Antony, Suresh J., Parikh, Monisha S., Ramirez, Ruben, Applebaum, Bruce, Friedman, Glen, Do, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26500741
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2015.6031
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author Antony, Suresh J.
Parikh, Monisha S.
Ramirez, Ruben
Applebaum, Bruce
Friedman, Glen
Do, Jennifer
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spelling pubmed-45938872015-10-23 Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis Resulting in a Catastrophic Outcome in an Immunocompetent Patient Antony, Suresh J. Parikh, Monisha S. Ramirez, Ruben Applebaum, Bruce Friedman, Glen Do, Jennifer Infect Dis Rep Brief Report We present a case of a middle-aged female who was admitted to the hospital with a respiratory infection and subsequently developed an acute surgical abdomen secondary to a perforated viscous. She was found to have mucormycosis of the intestinal tract and eventually succumbed to the sequelae of the infection. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4593887/ /pubmed/26500741 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2015.6031 Text en ©Copyright S. J. Antony et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Antony, Suresh J.
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Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis Resulting in a Catastrophic Outcome in an Immunocompetent Patient
title Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis Resulting in a Catastrophic Outcome in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis Resulting in a Catastrophic Outcome in an Immunocompetent Patient
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title_short Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis Resulting in a Catastrophic Outcome in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_sort gastrointestinal mucormycosis resulting in a catastrophic outcome in an immunocompetent patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593887/
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