Successful medical management of isolated renal zygomycosis: Case report and review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 601-605

  Weng, David E ^b   Wilson, Wyndham H ^b   Little, Richard ^b   Walsh, Thomas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CEFTAZIDIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOKINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; KIDNEY INFECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHIZOPUS; VASCULAR ACCESS; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0031977482     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514562     Document Type: Article

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