The use of fluconazole as a local irrigant for nephrostomy tubes

Military Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 239-241

  Clark, Max A ^a   Gaunt, Tina ^b   Czachor, John S ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wright Stt Univ School of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUCONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY INFECTION; MYCOSIS; NEPHROSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0344197007     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/164.3.239     Document Type: Article

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