Late onset Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1057-1059

  Lyytikainen O ^a   Ruutu, T ^a   Volin, L ^a   Lautenschlager, I ^a   Jokipii, L ^b   Tiittanen, L ^a   Ruutu, P ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

BMT; Incidence; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOPENIA; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030036818     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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