Early diagnosis and successful management of oral mucormycosis in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient: case report and literature review

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3343-3346

  Epstein, Joel B ^a   Kupferman, Steven B ^a,b   Zabner, Rachel ^a   Rejali, Ali ^a   Hopp, Martin L ^a   Lill, Michael ^a   Tzachanis, Dimitrios ^a,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematopoietic stem cell transplant; Oral mucormycosis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CEFEPIME; CHLORHEXIDINE; FLUDARABINE; HYDROMORPHONE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MELPHALAN; METRONIDAZOLE; OXIDIZED REGENERATED CELLULOSE; PONATINIB; POSACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE EDEMA; FEVER; GINGIVA ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; MANDIBLE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOUTH HYGIENE; MOUTH INFECTION; MOUTH PAIN; MUCORMYCOSIS; ORAL MUCORMYCOSIS; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SUBMANDIBULAR LYMPH NODE; SURGICAL WOUND; SUTURING METHOD; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; WOUND HEALING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 84961164216     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-016-3170-x     Document Type: Article

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