Pulmonary coccidioidal pseudomycetoma.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
; 15(3): 267-72, 1992.
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ABSTRACT
Coccidiomycosis is rarely associated with a pulmonary mycetoma. We report a patient with progressive cavitary coccidiomycosis, whose initial radiographic and clinical appearance simulated a mycetoma. Examination of the surgically resected lung showed necrotizing Coccidioides immitis granulomas with spherules and arthroconidialike structures, but no evidence of a mycetoma. We propose the term pulmonary coccidioidal pseudomycetoma as the best descriptor for this patient's clinical, radiographic, pathologic, and microbiologic presentation.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Coccidioides
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Coccidioidomicosis
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Enfermedades Pulmonares Fúngicas
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Micetoma
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Año:
1992
Tipo del documento:
Article