Recurrent multiple hepatic abscesses, hepatic calcification and congenital hearing loss in a child with chronic granulomatous disease

Acta Paediatrica Taiwanica

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 249-252

  Çaksen, Hüseyin ^a,c   Patiroǧlu, Türkan ^b   Erol, Mehmet ^a   Poyrazoǧlu, Muammer Hakan ^b  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^c Yusuncu Yil Univ Fac of Med ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic granulomatous disease; Congenital hearing loss; Liver abscess

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CEFOTAXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CALCIFICATION; CANDIDA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CALCIFICATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHAGOCYTE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RARE DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY BURST; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AMIKACIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CALCINOSIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTIPATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEVER; GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE, CHRONIC; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; LIVER; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; RECURRENCE; SKIN; SUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9644262593     PISSN: 16088115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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