Candida albicans-associated necrotizing vasculitis producing life-threatening gastrointestinal hemorrhage

Human Pathology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 602-604

  Sargent, Jeremy ^a   O'Marcaigh, Aengus ^a   Smith, Owen ^a   Butler, Karina ^a   Gavin, Patrick ^a   O'Sullivan, Maureen ^a  

^a OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Candida; Fibrinoid necrosis; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ASPARAGINASE MACROGOL; CASPOFUNGIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NYSTATIN; TEICOPLANIN; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOMEGALY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; LETHARGY; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MELENA; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; NEUTROPENIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; NECROSIS; PRECURSOR B-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; VASCULITIS;

EID: 77649342718     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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