Liposomal amphotericin B and surgery in the successful treatment of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis in a patient with acute T-lymphoblastic leukemia

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 316-319

  Bjorkholm M ^a   Runarsson, G ^a   Celsing, F ^a   Kalin, M ^a   Petrini, B ^a   Engervall, P ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; AMSACRINE; BETAMETHASONE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD38 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN; CILASTATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMIPENEM; ITRACONAZOLE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; TIOGUANINE; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATIGUE; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; RHIZOMUCOR; SWEATING; T LYMPHOBLAST; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; LIPOSOMES; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMONECTOMY; RHIZOMUCOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035063587     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003655401300077469     Document Type: Article

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