TY - JOUR
AU1 - Josefiak, Eugene J.
AU2 - Foushee, J. H. Smith
AU3 - Smith, L. C.
AB - EUGENE J. JOSEFIAK, M.D., PH.D. , J. H. SMITH FOUSHEE, M.D., AND L. C. SMITH, M.D. Department of Pathology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, and North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and the National Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C. Mucormycosis of the skin is a medical diabetes, was admitted to the North Caro­ rarity, but there is an increasing incidence lina Baptist Hospital on August 30, 1957, of the systemic form of the disease. Organ­ with the chief complaint of "ulcer on my isms of the family Mucoraceae have been left leg." Two weeks prior to admission the incriminated, either by means of histologic patient noted an atraumatic, slowly growing section or by culture, in infections of the "black spot" on the anterolateral aspect of lungs, gastrointestinal tract, brain, eye, or the left ankle just above the malleolus. One sinuses. Inasmuch as the majority of the week prior to admission to this institution, he was hospitalized at another hospital and reported examples of systemic mucormy­ was treated with saline soaks and injections cosis occurred in patients with diabetes or of penicillin. The patient was transferred to leukemia, or in persons who were on pro­ this hospital because the family 
TI - Cutaneous Mucormycosis
JF - American Journal of Clinical Pathology
DO - 10.1093/ajcp/30.6.547
DA - 1958-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/cutaneous-mucormycosis-IwEM8PBrSL
SP - 547
EP - 552
VL - 30
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -