ABSTRACT
Basidiobolomycosis is an unusual fungal skin infection that rarely involves the gastrointestinal tract. This study reported a 5-year-old boy with gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis that had been misdiagnosed as gastrointestinal lymphoma. He was treated by surgical resection and a combination of posaconazole and amphotericin B deoxycholate with an acceptable response and no recurrence.
Subject(s)
Colonic Diseases/microbiology , Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Liver Diseases/microbiology , Lymphoma/diagnosis , Zygomycosis , Amphotericin B/therapeutic use , Antifungal Agents/therapeutic use , Child, Preschool , Colonic Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Colonic Diseases/pathology , Deoxycholic Acid/therapeutic use , Diagnosis, Differential , Drug Combinations , Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/pathology , Humans , Liver Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Liver Diseases/pathology , Lymphoma/pathology , Male , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Treatment Outcome , Triazoles/therapeutic use , Zygomycosis/diagnostic imaging , Zygomycosis/drug therapy , Zygomycosis/pathologyABSTRACT
Abstract Basidiobolomycosis is an unusual fungal skin infection that rarely involves the gastrointestinal tract. This study reported a 5-year-old boy with gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis that had been misdiagnosed as gastrointestinal lymphoma. He was treated by surgical resection and a combination of posaconazole and amphotericin B deoxycholate with an acceptable response and no recurrence.