Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis secondary to Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection without pneumonia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 1679-1683

  Hibino, Makoto ^a   Sato, Shuku ^b   Shimizu, Takanori ^a   Yamamoto, Saori ^a   Ohe, Motoki ^a   Kondo, Tetsuri ^a  

^a Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHONAN KAMAKURA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Hypercytokinemia; Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BONE MARROW; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84905264013     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.53.2089     Document Type: Article

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