Mucormycosis presenting as recurrent gastric perforation in a patient with Crohn's disease on glucocorticoid, 6-mercaptopurine, and infliximab therapy

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2078-2081

  Devlin, Shane M ^a   Hu, Bing ^a   Ippoliti, Andrew ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

6 Mercaptopurine; Crohn's disease; Gastric perforation; Glucocorticoids; Infliximab; Mucormycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; INFLIXIMAB; MERCAPTOPURINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; HEMATEMESIS; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM RESECTION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STOMACH PERFORATION;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; RHIZOPUS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STOMACH RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547843602     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9455-z     Document Type: Article

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