Aspergillus pericarditis with tamponade: Report of a successfully treated case and review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 451-460

  Le Moing, Vincent ^b   Lortholary, Olivier ^a   Timsit, Jean François ^b   Couvelard, Anne ^b   Bouges Michel, Claire ^b   Wolff, Michel ^b   Guillevin, Loïc ^b   Casassus, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ASPARAGINASE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IDARUBICIN; ITRACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0031906830     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516326     Document Type: Article

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