Aspergillus fumigatus Joint Infection: A Review

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 580-584

  Golmia, Ricardo ^a   Bello, Isabel ^b   Marra, Alexandre ^a   Hamerschlak, Nelson ^a   Osawa, Akemi ^a   Scheinberg, Morton ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^b AACD   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspergillus joint infection; Septic arthritis; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; JOINT ASPIRATION; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE; LOW BACK PAIN; NEUTROPHIL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PELVIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROILIAC JOINT; SHOULDER; STERNUM; STERNUM CHONDRAL; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRAINAGE; ECHINOCANDINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MIDDLE AGED; PYRIMIDINES; SACROILIAC JOINT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 79955951371     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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