Acute Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis and Review of Published Cases with Lung Involvement in Korea
Soonchunhyang Medical Science
; : 159-163, 2015.
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ABSTRACT
Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection caused by Coccidioides immitis. The endemic area is mostly south-western United States. As increasing in overseas travel to endemic areas, the incidence rate has been recently increased in non-endemic areas. The diagnosis may be delayed in non-endemic area. It is important to elicit traveling histories and to differentiate lung consolidation with eosinophilia, for timely diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis. Recently, we experienced a case with pulmonary coccidioidomycosis in a Korean American who visited Korea showed consolidation in right lower lobe on chest X-ray and prolonged eosinophilia. In the case, a confirmatory diagnostic method was percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy of lung. We report acute pulomonary coccidioidomycosis case and review previous published reports with pulmonary manifestation in Korea.
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Assunto principal:
Tórax
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Estados Unidos
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Biópsia por Agulha
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Asiático
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Incidência
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Coccidioides
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Coccidioidomicose
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Doenças Endêmicas
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Diagnóstico
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Eosinofilia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Soonchunhyang Medical Science
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article