Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 10-2004. A 58-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia and Fever after chemotherapy

N Engl J Med. 2004 Mar 25;350(13):1339-47. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030039.

Authors

Jay A Fishman¹, Bimalangshu R Dey, Robert P Hasserjian

Affiliation

¹ Transplant Infectious Disease and Compromised Host Program, Infectious Disease Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

PMID: 15044646
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030039

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Anti-Infective Agents / adverse effects
Anti-Infective Agents / therapeutic use*
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / adverse effects*
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
Blood Cell Count
Bone Marrow / pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Fever / etiology
Humans
Immunocompromised Host
Infections / drug therapy*
Infections / etiology
Leukemia, Myeloid / complications*
Leukemia, Myeloid / drug therapy
Leukemia, Myeloid / pathology
Male
Middle Aged
Myelodysplastic Syndromes / complications
Neutropenia / etiology
Pilonidal Sinus / complications*
Pilonidal Sinus / surgery
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Risk Factors
Skin Ulcer / complications
Skin Ulcer / therapy

Substances

Anti-Infective Agents