Retropharyngeal abscess due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a case of acute myeloid leukemia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 346-349

  Sato, Kazuya ^b   Izumi, Tohru ^a   Toshima, Masaki ^b   Nagai, Tadashi ^b   Muroi, Kazuo ^b   Komatsu, Norio ^b   Ozawa, Keiya ^b  

^a TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Retropharyngeal abscess

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFEPIME; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; GENTAMICIN; HABEKACIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MEROPENEM; MITOXANTRONE; SULPERAZON; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; APHAGIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DRUG FEVER; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LAVAGE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEUTROPENIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; SEPTIC SHOCK; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 18644364296     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.346     Document Type: Article

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