Successful allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with poor-risk leukaemia and prior invasive fungal infection [4]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 825-826

  Mehta, P ^a   Augustson, B ^a   Krishnamurthy, S ^a   Jacob, A ^b   Roy, D ^b   Olliff, J ^a   Cook, M ^a   Craddock, C ^a   Mahendra, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HLA ANTIGEN; ITRACONAZOLE; STEROID; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEPATITIS; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG INFECTION; MUCOR; MYCOSIS; NASAL BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING; SPLEEN DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, PHILADELPHIA-POSITIVE; MALE; MUCOR; MUCORMYCOSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7944233166     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704685     Document Type: Letter

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