Epididymo-orchitis and central nervous system nocardiosis in a bone marrow transplant recipient for acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 264-266

  Dehghani, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Davarpanah, Mohammad Ali ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Immunocompromised; Nocardia; Stem cell transplant; Testicular involvement

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHITIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPIDIDYMITIS; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; ORCHITIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75649143737     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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