Disseminated nocardiosis as a complication of Evans' syndrome

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 385-387

  Urbaniak Kujda, D ^a   Cielinska S ^a   Kapelko Slowik K ^a   Mazur, G ^a   Bronowicz, A ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Evans' syndrome; Immunosuppression; Nocardiosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DANAZOL; DEXAMETHASONE; MEROPENEM; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; SPLENECTOMY; STROKE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BRAIN; HUMANS; MALE; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0344994503     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002770050534     Document Type: Article

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