Zygomycosis in the 1990s in a Tertiary-Care Cancer Center
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Zygomycosis in the 1990s in a tertiary-care cancer center.
Twenty-four patients with cancer met predetermined criteria for a diagnosis of zygomycosis over a 10-year period at our institution. All had hematologic malignancy, and most had either neutropenia or steroid use as a risk factor. Pulmonary involvement mimicking invasive aspergillosis was the most common presentation, and dissemination was seen in 58% of patients on whom autopsies were performed...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/313803