Bennett C L, Westbrook C A, Gruber B, Golomb H M
Am J Med. 1986 Dec;81(6):1065-7. doi: 10.1016/0002-9343(86)90409-2.
Right maxillary sinus mucormycosis developed in a 45-year-old patient with hairy cell leukemia and pancytopenia. The patient recovered with surgical debridement, amphotericin therapy, and institution of alpha-2 interferon as therapy for his hairy cell leukemia. This may be the first case of the use of alpha-2-interferon therapy in a patient with documented systemic fungal infection and hairy cell leukemia and a rare example of recovery from this infection in a hematologic malignancy.
