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Rare complication of bronchoesophageal fistula due to pulmonary mucormycosis after induction chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia: a case report

BACKGROUND: Mucormycosis is a rare and life-threatening invasive fungal infection. Pulmonary mucormycosis commonly occurs in patients with severe neutropenia. Typically, pulmonary mucormycosis causes tissue necrosis resulting from angioinvasion and subsequent thrombosis, so most cases can occur with...

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Autores principales: Lee, Jun-Hyung, Hyun, Jin-Soo, Kang, Da-yeong, Lee, Hee-Jeong, Park, Sang-Gon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27423701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-0991-7