Primary gastrointestinal aspergillosis after autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation: An unusual presentation of invasive aspergillosis

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 193-196

  Gonzalez Vicent M ^a   Diaz M A ^a   Colmenero, I ^a   Sevilla, J ^a   Madero, L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL UNIVERSITARIO NIÑO JESÚS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aspergillosis; Gastrointestinal; Pediatric; Peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation (PBPCT)

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOPAMINE; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MELPHALAN; NORADRENALIN; OPIATE; STEROID; TEICOPLANIN; THIOTEPA; TOPOTECAN; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEVER; FUNGAL STRAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUTROPENIA; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ADULT; ASPERGILLOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 43949112644     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2007.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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