Fungal internal carotid artery aneurysms: Successful embolization of an Aspergillus-associated case and review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Hot, Arnaud ^a   Mazighi, Mikaël ^c   Lecuit, Marc ^a   Poirée, Sylvain ^b   Viard, Jean Paul ^a   Loulergue, Pierre ^a   Suarez, Felipe ^b   Dupont, Bertrand ^a   Merland, Jean Jacques ^c   Lortholary, Olivier ^a,d  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; CASPOFUNGIN; CLADRIBINE; VALACICLOVIR; VORICONAZOLE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISTAXIS; FOLLOW UP; FUNGAL ANEURYSM; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; LABORATORY TEST; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUSITIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPERGILLOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CHILD; FEMALE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 40449138331     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523005     Document Type: Article

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