Cancrum Oris (Noma) in a Patient with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia: A Complication of Chemotherapy Induced Neutropenia

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-34

  Brady West, D C ^a   Richards, L ^a   Thame, J ^a   Moosdeen, F ^a   Nicholson, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FEMALE; GANGRENE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIP; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEUTROPENIA; PATHOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REMISSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STOMATITIS; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; LIP; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEUTROPENIA; NOMA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; REMISSION INDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0032017856     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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