1.
Rev Mal Respir
; 14(4): 331-2, 1997 Sep.
Artigo
em Francês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9411619
2.
Rev Pneumol Clin
; 49(1): 37-9, 1993.
Artigo
em Francês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8378696
RESUMO
We report a case of apparently isolated pleural Pneumocystis carinii infection in an AIDS patient under primary prophylaxis with pentamidine aerosols. Owing to the absence of the usual radiological signs and to negative broncho-alveolar lavages the diagnosis was difficult, and only pleural biopsy during thoracotomy made it possible. P. carinii cysts were demonstrated by Grocott's silver staining. Histological study of lung biopsy fragments only showed giant-cell granulomas of the foreign body type, with numerous calcifications. The occurrence of pneumothorax, ascribable in this patient to a minute and probably missed pulmonary focal lesion, was caused by the rupture of bullae remaining from an old tuberculosis.