Diagnosis of cryptococcal encephalitis in a patient with mature B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia

Fungal meningoencephalitides are one of the most menacing infectious complications in hematologic cancer patients in the presence of myelotoxic agranulocytosis. Due to diagnostic difficulties, mortality in these cases can be as high as 100%. The causative agent of cryptococcosis is Cryptococcus neof...

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Main Authors: Lev Nikolaevich Gotman, Galina Aleksandrovna Yatsyk, Vladimir Ivanovich Vorob'ev, L N Gotman, G A Yatsyk, V I Vorobyev
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: "Consilium Medicum" Publishing house 2010-03-01
Series:Терапевтический архив
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Online Access:https://ter-arkhiv.ru/0040-3660/article/view/33409