Histoplasmosis laryngeal: report first case in Colombia

Laryngeal histoplasmosis is a fungal infection that is frequent in Colombia. Laryngeal histoplasmosis usually occurs in immunocompromised patients through the dissemination of the fungus from the lungs to other organs. Histoplasmosis isolated laryngeal (primary) is rare. If a patient presents with a...

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Autores principales: Moriones Robayo, Carlos Alberto, Guerra Ortiz, Claudia Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad del Valle 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25767308
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description Laryngeal histoplasmosis is a fungal infection that is frequent in Colombia. Laryngeal histoplasmosis usually occurs in immunocompromised patients through the dissemination of the fungus from the lungs to other organs. Histoplasmosis isolated laryngeal (primary) is rare. If a patient presents with a history of immunosuppression by renal transplant, primary laryngeal histoplasmosis with supraglottic granulomatous inflammation that was treated with amphotericin B and Itraconazole, with complete resolution of laryngeal lesions.
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spelling pubmed-43503852015-03-12 Histoplasmosis laryngeal: report first case in Colombia Moriones Robayo, Carlos Alberto Guerra Ortiz, Claudia Patricia Colomb Med (Cali) Case Report Laryngeal histoplasmosis is a fungal infection that is frequent in Colombia. Laryngeal histoplasmosis usually occurs in immunocompromised patients through the dissemination of the fungus from the lungs to other organs. Histoplasmosis isolated laryngeal (primary) is rare. If a patient presents with a history of immunosuppression by renal transplant, primary laryngeal histoplasmosis with supraglottic granulomatous inflammation that was treated with amphotericin B and Itraconazole, with complete resolution of laryngeal lesions. Universidad del Valle 2014-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4350385/ /pubmed/25767308 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ © 2014 Universidad del Valle. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
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title_fullStr Histoplasmosis laryngeal: report first case in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Histoplasmosis laryngeal: report first case in Colombia
title_short Histoplasmosis laryngeal: report first case in Colombia
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