CLOSTRIDIUM-SEPTICUM BACTEREMIA IN A PATIENT WITH LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE LEUKEMIA

Authors
LITAM PP LOUGHRAN TP
Citation
Pp. Litam et Tp. Loughran, CLOSTRIDIUM-SEPTICUM BACTEREMIA IN A PATIENT WITH LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE LEUKEMIA, Cancer investigation, 13(5), 1995, pp. 492-494
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology
Journal title
Cancer investigation → ACNP
ISSN journal
07357907
Volume
13
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
492 - 494
Database
ISI
SICI code
0735-7907(1995)13:5<492:CBIAPW>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
This is the first case report of Clostridium septicum septicemia in a patient with large granular lymphocyte leukemia. C. septicum infection is highly associated with malignancy and causes a rapidly fatal enter ocolitis among patients who are profoundly neutropenic. The need for e arly recognition and combination of early antibiotic therapy and neces sary surgical intervention may help to alter the fulminating nature of C. septicum infection.