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- Title
Fatal, complete splenic infarction and hepatic infection due to disseminated Trichosporon beigelii infection: CT findings.
- Authors
Viscomi, S.G.; Mortelé, K.J.; Cantisani, V.; Glickman, J.; Silverman, S.G.; Mortelé, K J
- Abstract
We report on a 56-year-old woman with acute lymphocytic leukemia who presented with right upper quadrant pain, fever, nausea, and vomiting. Laboratory studies confirmed fungemia with Trichosporum beigelii, and contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the abdomen demonstrated numerous low-attenuation liver lesions and a hypodense spleen with capsular enhancement suggestive of complete splenic infarction. Subsequent splenectomy confirmed that the spleen was completely infarcted and infiltrated with Trichosporum. The patient had a difficult postoperative course and died despite aggressive antifungal therapy.
- Subjects
LYMPHOBLASTIC leukemia; LEUKEMIA; OLDER women; MYCOSES; SPLEEN diseases; INFARCTION
- Publication
Abdominal Imaging, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 2, p228
- ISSN
0942-8925
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00261-003-0099-6