Successful treatment of fusarium solani ecthyma gangrenosum in a patient affected by leukocyte adhesion deficiency type 1 with granulocytes transfusions

BMC Dermatology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mellouli, Fethi ^a   Ksouri, Habib ^a   Barbouche, Ridha ^b   Maamer, Mongi ^c   Hamed, Leila B ^c   Hmida, Slama ^c   Hassen, Assia B ^a   Béjaoui, Mohamed ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; ITRACONAZOLE;

ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE LESION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEMINERALIZATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECTHYMA GANGRENOSUM; EOSINOPHIL; FALLING; FEMALE; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GRANULOCYTE TRANSFUSION; HISTIOCYTE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LEUKOCYTE ADHESION DEFICIENCY; LEUKOCYTE ADHESION DEFICIENCY TYPE 1; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA CELL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PYODERMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; X RAY; ECTHYMA; FUSARIUM; GANGRENE; GRANULOCYTE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPENIA; TRANSPLANTATION;

CHILD; ECTHYMA; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; GANGRENE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKOCYTE-ADHESION DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA;

EID: 77958152787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14715945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-5945-10-10     Document Type: Article

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