Candida pericarditis: Clinical profile and treatment

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1200-1204

  Rabinovici, Reuven ^a   Szewczyk, Damian ^a   Ovadia, Philip ^a   Greenspan, Jeffrey R ^a   Sivalingam, Jocelyn J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANDIDA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; MALE; PERICARDIOTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030894338     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00086-6     Document Type: Article

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