Article
Eumicetoma: actualidades y perspectivas.
Gaceta medica de Mexico - 1 Jan 2000
Arenas Roberto, Vega-Mémije M ª Elisa, Rangel-Gamboa Lucía
Abstract excerpt
The eumycetoma is a severely debilitating chronic progressive fungal cutaneous infection. Classic clinical triad is characterized by painless subcutaneous mass, sinus tracts formation and sero-purulent discharge that contain aggregates of fungal hyphae called grains. Any part of the body can have affected, with extension to muscular or bone, even visceral compromised. The eumycetoma is observed in tropical and...
Topics
- Ascomycota
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Madurella
- Mycetoma
- Phylogeny
