Rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a boy with recurrent acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Long-term survival with systemic antifungal treatment

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 492-494

  Wehl, Goetz ^a   Hoegler, Wolfgang ^a   Kropshofer, Gabriele ^a   Meister, Bernhard ^a   Fink, Franz Martin ^a   Heitger, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Amphotericin B; Outcome; Rhinocerebral mucormycosis; Survival; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; BRAIN DISEASES; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LIPOSOMES; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0036693924     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043426-200208000-00017     Document Type: Article

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