Surgical Treatment of Mediastinal Aspergilloma in a Immunocompetent Patient

Aspergillus is a common saprophytic fungi of the human airways and causes a broad spectrum of diseases, ranging from aspergilloma to invasive aspergillosis. There are few reports on mediastinal aspergilloma without any underlying pulmonary disease or immunocompromise. Herein, we report a case of med...

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Autores principales: Lim, Jae Hong, Kim, Ji Seong, Yang, Chan Kyu, Kang, Chang Hyun, Kim, Young Tae, Park, In Kyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25207260
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.4.431
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author Lim, Jae Hong
Kim, Ji Seong
Yang, Chan Kyu
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Kim, Young Tae
Park, In Kyu
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description Aspergillus is a common saprophytic fungi of the human airways and causes a broad spectrum of diseases, ranging from aspergilloma to invasive aspergillosis. There are few reports on mediastinal aspergilloma without any underlying pulmonary disease or immunocompromise. Herein, we report a case of mediastinal aspergilloma that we experienced and treated by thoracoscopic resection and oral antifungal medication.
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spelling pubmed-41575142014-09-09 Surgical Treatment of Mediastinal Aspergilloma in a Immunocompetent Patient Lim, Jae Hong Kim, Ji Seong Yang, Chan Kyu Kang, Chang Hyun Kim, Young Tae Park, In Kyu Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Aspergillus is a common saprophytic fungi of the human airways and causes a broad spectrum of diseases, ranging from aspergilloma to invasive aspergillosis. There are few reports on mediastinal aspergilloma without any underlying pulmonary disease or immunocompromise. Herein, we report a case of mediastinal aspergilloma that we experienced and treated by thoracoscopic resection and oral antifungal medication. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014-08 2014-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4157514/ /pubmed/25207260 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.4.431 Text en Copyright © 2014 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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