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Pulmonary mucormycosis with cervical lymph node involvement in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia: a case report
Author(s) -
Fanci Rosa,
Pecile Patrizia,
Di Lollo Simonetta,
Dini Catia,
Bosi Alberto
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
mycoses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.13
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1439-0507
pISSN - 0933-7407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2008.01494.x
Subject(s) - mucormycosis , medicine , myeloid leukaemia , lymph node , myeloid , pathology
Summary Here we describe a rare case of pulmonary mucormycosis and simultaneous cervical lymphadenitis in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia. The patient was successfully treated with liposomal amphotericin B. The diagnosis of Mucor is very difficult, especially in severely immunocompromised patients. This report seems to be the first case about documented lymph node involvement by mucormycosis in humans.