Rhino facial zygomycosis: case report

Zygomycosis is an invasive disease that affects both immunocompetent and immunocompromised, depending on the type of strain. This disease diagnosis is clinical and histopathological, and its treatment is based on antifungal therapy and surgical cleaning. This paper reports a case of a boy with invas...

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Autores principales: Souza, Juliana Miguita e, Sproesser, Antonio José, Felippu, Alexandre, Fuks, Florencia Barbero, de Oliveira, Carlos Augusto Cardim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4872948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25167339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082014RC2579
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Sumario:Zygomycosis is an invasive disease that affects both immunocompetent and immunocompromised, depending on the type of strain. This disease diagnosis is clinical and histopathological, and its treatment is based on antifungal therapy and surgical cleaning. This paper reports a case of a boy with invasive zygomycosis rinofacial who final treatment was successful after underwent antifungal and surgical therapies.

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