Cryptococcal osteomyelitis in an adolescent survivor of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Djin-Ye Oh1, P Pallavi Madhusoodhan, Deborah J Springer

  • 1From the *Saul Krugman Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, New York University Medical School, New York, NY; †Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ‡Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, New York University Medical School, New York, NY; §Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), ¶Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and ‖Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; **Department of Pathology, New York University Medical School, New York, NY; and ††Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.

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