Sclerosing cholangitis associated with trichosporon infection and natural killer cell deficiency in an 8-year-old girl

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 620-623

  Kahana, Doron D ^a   Cass, Oliver ^b   Jessurun, Jose ^a   Schwarzenberg, Sara Jane ^a   Sharp, Harvey ^a   Khan, Khalid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ITRACONAZOLE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT STENT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER BIOPSY; MYCOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; STENT; TRICHOSPORON BEIGELII; TRICHOSPORONOSIS; CONSANGUINITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TRICHOSPORON;

TRICHOSPORON BEIGELII;

CHILD; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MYCOSES; TRICHOSPORON;

EID: 1542704005     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200311000-00022     Document Type: Article

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