Thoracic Blastomycosis and Empyema

Blastomycosis is endemic in river valley areas of the south-eastern and Midwestern United States. Pulmonary manifestations include chronic cough and pleuritic pain. Radiographie appearance of the infection can mimic bronchogenic lung carcinoma. Pleural effusion is rarely associated with this pulmona...

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Autores principales: Wiesman, Irvin M., Podbielski, Francis J., Hernan, M. Janeen, Sekosan, Marin, Vigneswaran, Wickii T.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 1999
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10323175
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author Wiesman, Irvin M.
Podbielski, Francis J.
Hernan, M. Janeen
Sekosan, Marin
Vigneswaran, Wickii T.
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Podbielski, Francis J.
Hernan, M. Janeen
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description Blastomycosis is endemic in river valley areas of the south-eastern and Midwestern United States. Pulmonary manifestations include chronic cough and pleuritic pain. Radiographie appearance of the infection can mimic bronchogenic lung carcinoma. Pleural effusion is rarely associated with this pulmonary infection, and empyema has not been previously reported. We report a case of pulmonary and pleural Blastomyces dermatitidis infection presenting as empyema thoracis. Diagnosis and treatment were attained with video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) pleural and lung biopsy and debridement.
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spelling pubmed-30153452011-02-17 Thoracic Blastomycosis and Empyema Wiesman, Irvin M. Podbielski, Francis J. Hernan, M. Janeen Sekosan, Marin Vigneswaran, Wickii T. JSLS Case Reports Blastomycosis is endemic in river valley areas of the south-eastern and Midwestern United States. Pulmonary manifestations include chronic cough and pleuritic pain. Radiographie appearance of the infection can mimic bronchogenic lung carcinoma. Pleural effusion is rarely associated with this pulmonary infection, and empyema has not been previously reported. We report a case of pulmonary and pleural Blastomyces dermatitidis infection presenting as empyema thoracis. Diagnosis and treatment were attained with video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) pleural and lung biopsy and debridement. Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 1999 /pmc/articles/PMC3015345/ /pubmed/10323175 Text en © 1999 by JSLS, Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits for noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not altered in any way.
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Wiesman, Irvin M.
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Hernan, M. Janeen
Sekosan, Marin
Vigneswaran, Wickii T.
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title_short Thoracic Blastomycosis and Empyema
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10323175
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