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Gastrointestinal phycomycosis in acute nonlymphatic leukemia
1Department of Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
Israel Journal of Medical Sciences
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 37-year-old patient with acute nonlymphatic leukemia developed gastrointestinal phycomycosis during failure in bone marrow production. The clinical presentation was of acute typhlitis. Laparotomy revealed a necrotic mass in the region of the iliocecal valve, and on histologic examination hyphae of phycomycetes with invasion of the blood vessels were seen. The patient died as a result of widespread infection.