Hepatosplenic fungal infection in patients with acute leukemia in Taiwan: Incidence, treatment, and prognosis

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-97

  Chen, C Y ^a   Chen, Y C ^a   Tang, J L ^a   Yao, M ^a   Huang, S Y ^a   Tsai, W ^a   Chen, Yao Chang ^a   Shen, M C ^a   Wang, C H ^a   Tien, H F ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Hepatosplenic fungal infection

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ASPARAGINASE; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUCONAZOLE; IDARUBICIN; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISOLONE; RETINOIC ACID; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER INJURY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPLEEN INJURY; TAIWAN; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CANDIDIASIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; SPLEEN DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PROGNOSIS; SPLENIC DISEASES; TAIWAN;

EID: 0038014071     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-002-0588-7     Document Type: Article

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