Wang XM, Guo LC, Xue SL, Chen YB. Pulmonary mucormycosis: A case report and review of the literature.
Oncol Lett 2016;
11:3049-3053. [PMID:
27123061 PMCID:
PMC4841004 DOI:
10.3892/ol.2016.4370]
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Abstract
The current study reports the case of a 15-year-old male who presented to The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University (Suzhou, Jiangsu, China) with a 3-day history of anergy and epistaxis. The patient was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia according to the results of a bone marrow examination and received chemotherapy. During the agranulocytosis period, the patient developed pneumonia of the right upper lung (RUL). Once complete remission was achieved, the patient underwent a lobectomy of the RUL, together with amphotericin B therapy, following the confirmation of pulmonary mucormycosis by the histopathological results. The patient experienced 12 months of uneventful follow-up post-surgery.
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