A 55-year-old man with a destructive bone lesion 17 months after liver transplantation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 25, 1999, Pages 1981-1988

  Lai, K K ^a   Rosenberg, A E ^a   Kattapuram, S V ^a   Rubin, R H ^a   Tomford, W W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033600252     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199906243402508     Document Type: Article

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