Clinical significance of extra-pulmonary involvement of invasive aspergillosis: A retrospective autopsy-based study of 107 patients

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 175-182

  Hori, Aki ^a,d   Kami, M ^a,d   Kishi, Y ^a   Machida, U ^b   Matsumura, T ^c   Kashima, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Extra pulmonary aspergillosis; Haematological malignancy; Invasive aspergillosis; Retrospective study

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ASPERGILLOSIS; AUTOPSY; BLADDER DISEASE; BONE INFECTION; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTION; CAVA VEIN DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIAPHRAGM DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG RESPONSE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY INFECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OVARY DISEASE; PANCREAS DISEASE; PERITONITIS; PHARYNGITIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INFECTION; SPLEEN DISEASE; THYROID DISEASE; TONGUE DISEASE; ULCER; ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; AUTOPSY; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036518753     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2001.1170     Document Type: Article

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