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Author(s)
Scheele Jan,
Kujath Peter
Publication year2006
Publication title
mycoses
Resource typeJournals
PublisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd
Summary An 80‐year‐old patient in previously excellent state of health presented with septic syndrome for gangrenous cholecystitis and concomitant pancreatitis. Diagnostic paracentesis revealed microbiological evidence of Candida albicans in the abdominal cavity. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed and examination of histological specimens confirmed peritonitis by fungal perforation of the gall bladder. In a complicated postoperative course the patient was finally cured choosing voriconazole (Vfend) for antimycotic therapy.
Subject(s)abdominal cavity , biology , candida albicans , cholecystectomy , cholecystitis , concomitant , empyema , gallbladder , genetics , materials science , medicine , metallurgy , pancreatitis , perforation , peritonitis , punching , surgery
Language(s)English
SCImago Journal Rank1.13
H-Index69
eISSN1439-0507
pISSN0933-7407
DOI10.1111/j.1439-0507.2006.01246.x
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