Penicillium brevicompactum as the cause of a necrotic lung ball in an allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipient

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1189-1193

  De La Camara R ^a   Pinilla, I ^a   Munoz E ^a   Buendia B ^a   Steegmann, J L ^a   Fernandez Ranada J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Fungal infection; Lung infection; Penicillium

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; BUSULFAN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMIPENEM; MITOXANTRONE; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG INFECTION; NEPHROTOXICITY; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; NECROSIS; NEUTROPENIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PENICILLIUM; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030459375     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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