%0 Journal Article
%T PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS: CUTANEOUS, SUBCUTANEOUS, NASOPHARYNGEAL LESIONS
%A M. Rasoolinejad
%A M. Haji Abdolbaghi
%A M. Emami
%A M. Zarchi
%J Acta Medica Iranica
%D 1999
%I Tehran University of Medical Sciences
%X Phaeohyphomycosis is an amalgam of clinical diseases caused by a wide variety of dematiaceous fungi. We are reporting on a 16 year-old patient from Amol with subcutaneous cervical nodes and nasopharyngeal lesions of phaeohypho"nmycosis that were confirmed by pathological examination, direct smear, and culture. After treatment with an oral triazole (Itraconazole) for 4 months, all nodes and lesions disappeared and treatment was stopped A new lesion appeared on his chest wall 8 months, therapy with itraconazole was restarted and commuted for a long time.
%K Phaeohyphomycosis
%K itraconazole
%K phialophora verrucosa
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