Candida Albicans Osteomyelitis after Chest Wall Blunt Trauma: A Case Report

Fungal osteomyelitis is a rare disease that can occur in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of a patient with a primary rib osteomyelitis after a blunt trauma of the chest wall. Aggressive surgical debridement along with antifungal therapy was the cornerstone of the disease management in t...

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Autores principales: Minervini, Fabrizio, Kestenholz, Peter B., Fritsche, Elmar, Franchi, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34188968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9987317
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author Minervini, Fabrizio
Kestenholz, Peter B.
Fritsche, Elmar
Franchi, Alberto
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description Fungal osteomyelitis is a rare disease that can occur in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of a patient with a primary rib osteomyelitis after a blunt trauma of the chest wall. Aggressive surgical debridement along with antifungal therapy was the cornerstone of the disease management in this patient.
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spelling pubmed-81922132021-06-28 Candida Albicans Osteomyelitis after Chest Wall Blunt Trauma: A Case Report Minervini, Fabrizio Kestenholz, Peter B. Fritsche, Elmar Franchi, Alberto Case Rep Surg Case Report Fungal osteomyelitis is a rare disease that can occur in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of a patient with a primary rib osteomyelitis after a blunt trauma of the chest wall. Aggressive surgical debridement along with antifungal therapy was the cornerstone of the disease management in this patient. Hindawi 2021-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8192213/ /pubmed/34188968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9987317 Text en Copyright © 2021 Fabrizio Minervini et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under 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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Minervini, Fabrizio
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Candida Albicans Osteomyelitis after Chest Wall Blunt Trauma: A Case Report
title Candida Albicans Osteomyelitis after Chest Wall Blunt Trauma: A Case Report
title_full Candida Albicans Osteomyelitis after Chest Wall Blunt Trauma: A Case Report
title_fullStr Candida Albicans Osteomyelitis after Chest Wall Blunt Trauma: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Candida Albicans Osteomyelitis after Chest Wall Blunt Trauma: A Case Report
title_short Candida Albicans Osteomyelitis after Chest Wall Blunt Trauma: A Case Report
title_sort candida albicans osteomyelitis after chest wall blunt trauma: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192213/
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