[Clinico-mycological study of onychomycosis in elderly patients]. / Estudio clínico micológico de onicomicosis en ancianos.
Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo
; 35(3): 213-7, 1993.
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Physical examination of nails was carried out in 210 elderly patients and nail scrapings were obtained from onychomycosis suggested lesions in order to determine their causative agents, incidence and clinical characteristics. Diagnostic was confirmed by the isolation of the agents from 74 patients, mainly from toe-nails (incidence 35.2). Tinea pedis occurred in 25% of the cases and Diabetes mellitus was the most prevalent associated disease and the most frequent clinical characteristics were the thickening, the opacity and the presence of longitudinal strias in the surface of the nails. It was compared the results obtained by microscopic examination and by culture. Trichophyton rubrum was the most common dermatophyte isolated; Candida parapsilosis was dominant among Candida species.
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Assunto principal:
Onicomicose
Tipo de estudo:
Incidence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Es
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Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo
Ano de publicação:
1993
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Article
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Cuba
País de publicação:
Brasil