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Its Use in Treating Chronic Granulomatous Disease of Childhood

Raymond J. Ippolito, MD; John H. Seashore, MD; Robert J. Touloukian, MD

Arch Surg. 1978;113(5):640-642.

Abstract
• Renal and pulmonary Aspergillus granulomas in two 6-year-old boys with chronic granulomatous disease were treated by nephrectomy and lobectomy as well as intravenous amphotericin B and granulocyte transfusion. After lobectomy two smaller pulmonary aspergillomas resolved with medical therapy. The second child's condition improved after nephrectomy, but he died with disseminated Aspergillus infection. This experience suggests that surgical excision of localized Aspergillus granulomas in conjunction with specific antimicrobial therapy provides temporary clinical improvement and may prevent further blood-borne dissemination of the fungus.

(Arch Surg 113:640-642, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine and the Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 17, 1977.

Reprint requests to Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510 (Dr Touloukian).

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