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

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...

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Main Authors: Luiz Carlos SEVERO, Carlos Fernando Carvalho RIZZON, Eliane Wurdig ROESCH, Flávio de Mattos OLIVEIRA, Nelson da Silva PORTO
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1997
Subjects:
Histoplasmosis
Histoplasma capsulatum
Lung
Cavitation
Aspergillus fumigatus
Fungus ball
Transthoracic biopsy
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Arctic
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a0036e8f79e141d8a7c773d29b9e7b75
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Summary: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

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