Necrosis of nasal cartilage due to mucormycosis in a patient with severe congenital neutropenia due to HAX1 deficiency

Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 469-472

  Fahimzad, A ^a   Chavoshzadeh, Z ^a   Abdollahpour, H ^b   Klein, C ^b   Rezaei, Nima ^c,d  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fungal infection; HAX1; Mucormycosis; Severe congenital neutropenia

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GERM LINE; HAX1 GENE; HISTORY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NOSE CARTILAGE; NOSE NECROSIS; PHYSICIAN; RECURRENT INFECTION;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUCORMYCOSIS; NASAL CARTILAGES; NECROSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS;

EID: 57349090791     PISSN: 10189068     EISSN: 16980808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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