Pulmonary Mucormycosis
- 16 March 1972
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 286 (11) , 606
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197203162861114
Abstract
To the Editor: We were very interested in the Brief Recording by Drs. Medoff and Kobayashi (N Engl J Med 286:86–87, 1972) of the first survival of a patient with pulmonary mucormycosis treated with amphotericin B and not requiring surgery. We wish to record a similar case, also treated with amphotericin B, with survival, and to emphasize the important role of pulmonary physical therapy in the management of this disorder.A 12-year-old boy with agammaglobulinemia was admitted to the hospital on August 6, 1971, with a 10-day history of fever and cough. Physical examination revealed a poorly developed boy in . . .Keywords
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