CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS AND INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA IN A PATIENT WITH WALDENSTROMS MACROGLOBULINEMIA TREATED WITH FLUDARABINE

Authors
COSTA P LUZZATI R NICOLATO A PERBONI G SCALZINI A LAZZARINI L FORGHIERI ME AITINI E ZINZANI PL
Citation
P. Costa et al., CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS AND INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA IN A PATIENT WITH WALDENSTROMS MACROGLOBULINEMIA TREATED WITH FLUDARABINE, Leukemia & lymphoma, 28(5-6), 1998, pp. 617-620
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Hematology,Oncology
Journal title
Leukemia & lymphoma → ACNP
ISSN journal
10428194
Volume
28
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1998
Pages
617 - 620
Database
ISI
SICI code
1042-8194(1998)28:5-6<617:CMAITI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We report a patient with Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia who presented with cryptococcal meningitis followed by an intracranial tuberculoma during the 18 months period after termination of cytotoxic therapy wit h Fludarabine. Opportunistic infections due to intracellular organisms are extremely rare in the course of this malignancy and we review the predisposing factors of these infectious entities.