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M Luna

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Case report: candida infection presenting as laryngitis.

Three patients with acute leukemia are described who developed hoarseness as an initial presentation of candida infection. Two of these patients subsequently developed systemic candidiasis. Patients with acute leukemia who develop hoarseness should be investigated for laryngeal candidiasis and considered for systemic antifungal therapy.

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Hemangiomas of the sphenoid sinus.

A review of the literature reveals that primary tumors of the sphenoid sinus are rare. No vascular tumors of the sphenoid have been previously reported. Two patients with cavernous hemangiomas of the sphenoid sinus are presented, both of whom died of complications associated with the diagnostic biopsy. A review of the available routine and special diagnostic tests is presented. The importance of an awareness of vascular tumors in this region is stressed.

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Trichosporon beigelii infection: a review.

During a 10-year period from 1974 to 1984, 19 patients at M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston had invasive infection due to Trichosporon beigelii. Infection was manifested as either a nonspecific febrile illness or pneumonia, and the diagnosis was not suspected before death in 25% of the patients. The majority were neutropenic at the onset of infection, and recovery was directly related to resolution of myelosuppression. The overall mortality rate was 74%. The majority of patients had polymicrobial infections. Twenty-four additional cases reported in the medical literature indicate that this pathogen is an increasingly important cause of mortality in immunosuppressed patients. In both the present series and the cases reported in the literature, the majority of neutropenic patients with disseminated T. beigelii infection died, despite antifungal therapy. Only those patients whose neutropenia resolved following remission of their leukemia recovered.

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