The Reversed Halo Sign: Pathognomonic Pattern of Pulmonary Mucormycosis in Leukemic Patients With Neutropenia? | Zendy

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The Reversed Halo Sign: Pathognomonic Pattern of Pulmonary Mucormycosis in Leukemic Patients With Neutropenia?

Author(s) -

C. Legouge,

Denis Caillot,

MarieLorraine Chrétien,

Ingrid Lafon,

Emmanuelle Ferrant,

S. Audia,

P Pagès,

M. Roques,

L. Estivalet,

L. Martin,

Thomas Maitre,

Jean Bastié,

Frédéric Dalle

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cit929

Subject(s) - medicine , halo sign , mucormycosis , neutropenia , pleural effusion , incidence (geometry) , pneumonia , radiology , acute myeloblastic leukemia , surgery , leukemia , chemotherapy , lung , gastroenterology , physics , optics

Pulmonary mucormycosis (PM) is a life-threatening fungal infection with an increasing incidence among patients with acute leukemia. In some immunocompromised hosts, the reversed halo sign (RHS) has been described on the pulmonary computed tomographic (CT) scan of patients with mucormycosis.

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