Pneumococcal meningitidis: A fatal complication of myeloma [2]

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 381-383

  Bigaillon, Christine ^a   Pelletier, Christophe ^a   Abdoulaye, Idrissou ^a   Villevieille, Thierry ^b   Ceppa, Franck ^a   Burnat, Pascal ^a  

^a SERVICE D ENDOCRINOLOGIE   (France)

^b HIA Legouest   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MORPHINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATALITY; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; INFECTION RISK; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LETTER; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NECK MUSCLE; PANCYTOPENIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEINURIA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PLASMA CELLS;

EID: 33947602271     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-006-0216-z     Document Type: Letter

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