Aspectos incomuns da paracoccidioidomicose infantil

• Main Authors: Achiléa Lisboa Bittencourt, Jacy Amaral Freire de Andrade, Edgard Marceiino Carvalho, Fernando Sergio da Silva Badaró, Jair Santos Miranda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1987
• Subjects: Paracoccidioidomicose; Blastomicose sul-americana; Paracoccidioidomicose infantil; Paracoccidioidomycosis; South American Blastomycosis; Infantile paracoccidioidomycosis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1a95fee3f2584dc4b2ab8f6e6efebe43

São relatados dois casos de paracoccidioidomicose (PCM) infantil. Em um deles, a principal manifestação da doença foi tumoração abdominal, simulando linfoma maligno não Hodgkin. O outro apresentou acentuado envolvimento articular, com ruptura da cápsula. Representam o segundo e terceiro casos de PCM infantil observados na Bahia, ambos procedentes de áreas urbanas. The authors present two cases of infantil para-coccidioidomycosis. In one case the main presentation was an abdominal mass that mimicked non- Hodgkin lymphoma. In the other case the child had a joint swelling with rupture of the capsule and the clinical diagnosis was piogenic arthritis. They represent the second and third cases of infantile paracoccidioidomycosis observed in the state of Bahia, all coming from urban areas.