71-Year-Old Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and Hypoechoic Nodular Spleen and Liver Lesions with Fatal Outcome: Presentation of Mucormycosis in B-Mode Imaging and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS)

Ultrasound Int Open 2016; 02(03): E100-E101
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-106394

Case Report

C. Trenker

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M. Dohse

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S. K. Metzelder

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P. Rexin

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J. Mariss

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C. Goerg

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