Small-bowel infarction from disseminated aspergillosis

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1515-1518

  Trésallet, Christophe ^a   Nguyen Thanh, Quang ^a   Aubriot Lorton, Marie Hélène ^a   Akakpo, Jean Paul ^a   Al Jijakli, Ahmad ^a   Cardot, Vincent ^a   Chigot, Jean Paul ^a   Menegaux, Fabrice ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Aspergillosis; Aspergillus fumigatu; Bowel; Chemotherapy; Clostridium difficile; Lymphoma

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; VORICONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE INFARCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOMA; NEUTROPENIA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LYMPHOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA;

EID: 4644237493     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0625-9     Document Type: Article

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