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Two cases of disseminated toxocariasis in compromised hosts successfully treated with mebendazole
1Department of Clinical Oncology, Postgraduate Medical School, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
Chemotherapy
|January 11, 1992
Abstract:
Two cases of disseminated (hepatosplenic, pulmonary and in 1 case also cerebral) toxocariasis in compromised hosts-1 with malignancy (mycosis fungoides) and 1 on chronic corticosteroid treatment due to autoimmune disease--are reported. Besides fungi, also other unusual pathogens (of parasitic origin), especially in cancer, shall be considered.