Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with solid tumors and lymphomas: Predisposing factors and outcome

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1 B, 2005, Pages 651-655

  Barbounis, Vassilios ^a   Aperis, George ^a   Gambletsas, Eleftherios ^a   Koumakis, George ^a   Demiris, Matina ^a   Vassilomanolakis, Michael ^a   Efremidis, Anna ^a  

^a SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Lymphopenia; Pneumonia; Pneumonocystis carinii; Radiation of thoracic duct

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DOCETAXEL; ETOPOSIDE; GEMCITABINE; IRINOTECAN; PACLITAXEL; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOLID TUMOR; THORACIC DUCT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 16344383475     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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