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FOROUTAN H, MASHAYEKHl R. ZYGOMYCOSIS OF COLON CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. Med J Islam Repub Iran 1997; 11 (1) :53-55
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ZYGOMYCOSIS OF COLON CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
HOSSEIN FOROUTAN , R MASHAYEKHl
From the Department of Gastroenterology Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran. Islamic Republic 0f Iran
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Zygomycosis is a fulminant infection which usually afflicts patients who are immunocompromised by diabetes mellitus, malignancy or immunosuppressive therapy.l This disease is a rare but highly invasive fungal infection which occurs in organ transplant recipients. 2 Mucormycosis confined to the gastrointestinal tract is an uncommon form of the disease. accounting for only seven percent of all mucormycoses.3 ..c We are reporting a case of gastrointestinal mucormycosis in a young woman, perhaps for the first time in Iran.
Keywords: Infection. Fungus, zygomycosis
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Type of Study: case report | Subject: Gastroenterology and Liver Disease
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