Isolated cerebral aspergillosis without a portal of entry - Complete recovery after liposomal amphotericin B and surgical treatment

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2385-2387

  Garcia, Ana ^a   Mazuecos, Auxiliadora ^a,b   Clavo, Antonio ^a   Pérez Requena, José ^a   Mangas, Alipio ^a   Alonso, Francisco ^a   Ceballos, Manuel ^a   Rivero, Manuel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Nefrologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; DRUG CARRIERS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIPOSOMES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031697050     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.9.2385     Document Type: Article

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