Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia Among Patients Without AIDS at a Cancer Hospital

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 267, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 832-837

  Sepkowitz, Kent A ^a   Brown, Arthur E ^a   Telzak, Edward E ^a,b   Gottlieb, Scott ^a,c   Armstrong, Donald ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER PATIENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0026552219     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1992.03480060078034     Document Type: Article

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