Importance of multidisciplinary approach in diagnosis of histoplasmosis

A patient with systemic involvement, initially treated as tuberculosis, is presented in this report. There were only two painful subcutaneous nodules, from which we arrived at the correct diagnosis of histoplasmosis. The patient was attended by several experts in the fields of infectious diseases, n...

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Autores principales: de Oliveira, Patricia Botini, de Abreu, Marilda Aparecida Milanez Morgado, Mattos, Antônio Luiz de Arruda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27438207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20163821
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description A patient with systemic involvement, initially treated as tuberculosis, is presented in this report. There were only two painful subcutaneous nodules, from which we arrived at the correct diagnosis of histoplasmosis. The patient was attended by several experts in the fields of infectious diseases, nephrology and internal medicine, but the diagnosis was only possible after dermatological examination and skin biopsy. This case values multidisciplinary interaction between dermatologists and other medical areas for diagnosis of cases with atypical manifestations.
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spelling pubmed-49382842016-07-11 Importance of multidisciplinary approach in diagnosis of histoplasmosis de Oliveira, Patricia Botini de Abreu, Marilda Aparecida Milanez Morgado Mattos, Antônio Luiz de Arruda An Bras Dermatol Case Report A patient with systemic involvement, initially treated as tuberculosis, is presented in this report. There were only two painful subcutaneous nodules, from which we arrived at the correct diagnosis of histoplasmosis. The patient was attended by several experts in the fields of infectious diseases, nephrology and internal medicine, but the diagnosis was only possible after dermatological examination and skin biopsy. This case values multidisciplinary interaction between dermatologists and other medical areas for diagnosis of cases with atypical manifestations. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4938284/ /pubmed/27438207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20163821 Text en © 2016 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.
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