Evaluation of the usefulness of nail biopsy in the diagnosis of onychomycosis
Background: Onychomycosis affects between 2% to 30% of the world population. Nail biopsy may help in making a diagnosis and can distinguish between invasion and colonisation. Aims: To evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of nail biopsy with Periodic acid–Schiff (PAS) staining for onychomycosis, compar...
- Autores:
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Velásquez Agudelo V.
De Bedout Gómez C.
Cardona Arias, Jaiberth Antonio
Cano Restrepo L.E.
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2019
- Institución:
- Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UCC
- Idioma:
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/41596
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.m9-18.ffpp
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/41596
- Palabra clave:
- potassium hydroxide
adult
Article
biopsy
Candida parapsilosis
clinical evaluation
Colombia
dermatophyte
diagnostic test
diagnostic test accuracy study
disease severity
female
fungal colonization
fungus culture
human
major clinical study
male
middle aged
nail biopsy
Neoscytalidium dimidiatum
onychomycosis
periodic acid Schiff stain
predictive value
reproducibility
sensitivity and specificity
Trichophyton rubrum
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- closedAccess
- License
- http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb