Pulmonary mucormycosis in a hematology ward

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 540-544

  Funada, Hisashi ^a   Matsuda, Tamotsu ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

amphotericin B; crescentic cavitation; hematologic malignancy; hemorrhagic pulmonary infarction; premortem diagnosis; rounded density

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKEMIA; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0029743233     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.540     Document Type: Article

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