Chronic Granulomatous Aspergillus Synovitis: a Case Report

Aspergillus can cause invasive disease of various organs especially in patients with weakened immune systems. Aspergillus synovitis and arthritis are uncommon types of involvement due to this infection. Approaches to fungal osteoarticular infections are based on only case reports. This paper present...

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Autores principales: Ayhan, Aylin Canbolat, Özkan, Korhan, Timur, Cetin, Aktaş, Birol, Ceyran, Ayse Bahar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23795281
http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2013.043
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Sumario:Aspergillus can cause invasive disease of various organs especially in patients with weakened immune systems. Aspergillus synovitis and arthritis are uncommon types of involvement due to this infection. Approaches to fungal osteoarticular infections are based on only case reports. This paper presents a rare case of chronic granulomatous Aspergillus synovitis in an immunocompromised 5-year old girl who was treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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