Disseminated cryptococcosis during severe decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis;Cryptococcose disséminée au cours d'une cirrhose alcoolique sévère décompensée

Presse Medicale

Volumn 32, Issue 29, 2003, Pages 1366-

  Hoche Delchet, Cyril ^a   Kauffmann Lacroix, Catherine ^a   Beau, Philippe ^a   Blanchet, Eloi ^a   Rodier, Marie Hélène ^a  

^a POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAUSEA; NEUROTROPISM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; VOMITING;

ADULT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER FAILURE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS;

EID: 0141706918     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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