Splenectomy in a patients with AIDS, generalized Mycobacterium genavense infection and severe pancytopenia [1]

Tubercle and Lung Disease

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 569-570

  Delpire, P ^a   Farber, C M ^a   Portaels, F ^a   Struelens, M ^a   Clevenbergh, P ^a   Dargent, J L ^a   Delpace, J ^a   Mehdi, A ^a   Van Vooren, J P ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIDANOSINE; ETHAMBUTOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; ZALCITABINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METHADONE TREATMENT; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM GENAVENSE; NEUTROPHIL; PANCYTOPENIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0030468062     PISSN: 09628479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-8479(96)90059-3     Document Type: Letter

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