Disseminated Fusarium infection presenting as bilateral endogenous endophthalmitis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 702-703

  Rezai, Kourous A ^a   Eliott, Dean ^b   Plous, Oren ^b   Vazquez, Jose A ^b   Abrams, Gary W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; DRUG COMBINATION; FATALITY; FUNGAL EYE INFECTION; FUNGEMIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOSIS; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; VITREOUS BODY;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOSES; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 18444390863     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.123.5.702     Document Type: Article

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