Invasive Aspergillosis in a child with severe granulocitopenia and endocardial fibroelastosis;Aspergillosi invasiva. Descrizione di un caso in un lattante con granulocitopenia severa e fibroelastosi endocardica

Pathologica

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 432-440

  Lamendola, M G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Anatomia Patologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endocardial fibroelastosis; Granulocitopenia; Invasive aspergillosis

Indexed keywords

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; FATALITY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRANULOMA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; LUNG; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SPLENOMEGALY; SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; URETER; VISCERA;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ASPERGILLOSIS; BONE MARROW; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; GRANULOMA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFANT; LUNG; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPLENOMEGALY; URETER; VISCERA;

EID: 0031196248     PISSN: 00312983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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