Chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis in Brazil: report of two cases with cavitation diagnosed by transthoracic needle biopsy-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis in Brazil: report of two cases with cavitation diagnosed by transthoracic needle biopsy

Published:1997-09 Issue:5 Volume:39 Page:293-298
ISSN:0036-4665
Container-title:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
language:
Short-container-title:Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo

Author:

SEVERO Luiz Carlos,RIZZON Carlos Fernando Carvalho¹,ROESCH Eliane Wurdig,OLIVEIRA Flávio de Mattos²,PORTO Nelson da Silva³

Affiliation:

1. Secretaria da Saúde

2. Santa Casa

3. Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre

Abstract

Two cases of Chronic Pulmonary Histoplasmosis are reported and other eleven cases, collected from Brazilian literature, are commented. After being clinically cured, one of our patients presented an Aspergillus fungus ball inside a cavitation in the wall of which H. capsulatum was disclosed. Comments are also done on the diagnosis of the mycosis

Publisher

FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,General Medicine

Link

http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rimtsp/v39n5/MT-08.pdf

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