An Autopsy Case of Aplastic Anemia Associated with Gigantic Mucor Mycotic Thrombus in the Atrium

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  • UCHIYAMA Fujio
    The Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Tokai University
  • KOMATSUDA Mitsumoto
    The Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Tokai University
  • ICHIKAWA Yukinobu
    The Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Tokai University
  • ARIMORI Shigeru
    The Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Tokai University

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  • ムコール菌性心房内巨大血栓を伴った再生不良性貧血の1剖検例
  • ムコールキンセイ シンボウナイ キョダイ ケッセン オ トモナッタ サイセイ

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Abstract

An 11 year-old male patient was referred and admitted to the Tokai University Hospital in March, 1976, who had been admitted to another hospital with a diagnosis of aplastic anemia.<br>He got a little better after treatment with testosterone, prednisolone and ACTH, but sometimes got worse and was complicated with pneumonia. He died in July 1976.<br>Autopsy findings showed aplastic anemia and disseminated mucor mycosis with gigantic mucor thrombus in the left atrium spreading to the pulmonary vein.<br>In the patients with aplastic anemia under chemotherapy, difficulty in the diagnosis of complicated mucor mycosis was emphasized.

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  • Rinsho Ketsueki

    Rinsho Ketsueki 18 (11), 1378-1381, 1977

    The Japanese Society of Hematology

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