Giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery

Fungal infections are serious and important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Angioinvasive aspergillosis causing mycotic aneurysm of major blood vessels is very rare and only a few cases are reported in literature. We hereby report one case of acute lymphoblastic leuka...

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Autores principales: Bansal, R. P., Gupta, Prerna, Sharma, Lalit M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206713
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.73592
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description Fungal infections are serious and important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Angioinvasive aspergillosis causing mycotic aneurysm of major blood vessels is very rare and only a few cases are reported in literature. We hereby report one case of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia presenting with this fatal complication.
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spelling pubmed-30094392011-01-04 Giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery Bansal, R. P. Gupta, Prerna Sharma, Lalit M. Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Fungal infections are serious and important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Angioinvasive aspergillosis causing mycotic aneurysm of major blood vessels is very rare and only a few cases are reported in literature. We hereby report one case of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia presenting with this fatal complication. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3009439/ /pubmed/21206713 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.73592 Text en © Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bansal, R. P.
Gupta, Prerna
Sharma, Lalit M.
Giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery
title Giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery
title_full Giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery
title_fullStr Giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery
title_full_unstemmed Giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery
title_short Giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery
title_sort giant intrathoracic mycotic aneurysm of left subclavian artery
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206713
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.73592
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