Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients

Asymptomatic blastomycosis infections are rarely identified or described in the literature, but are believed to comprise 50% of cases. In this report we describe five sporadic cases of blastomycosis in asymptomatic patients. All of these cases were initially identified as incidental findings of lung...

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Autores principales: Anderson, Jennifer L., Hall, Matthew C., Meece, Jennifer K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30094129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.05.005
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description Asymptomatic blastomycosis infections are rarely identified or described in the literature, but are believed to comprise 50% of cases. In this report we describe five sporadic cases of blastomycosis in asymptomatic patients. All of these cases were initially identified as incidental findings of lung nodules on CXR or CT. To our knowledge, these are the first detailed descriptions of asymptomatic blastomycosis, occurring as sporadic disease, in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-60763882018-08-09 Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients Anderson, Jennifer L. Hall, Matthew C. Meece, Jennifer K. Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Asymptomatic blastomycosis infections are rarely identified or described in the literature, but are believed to comprise 50% of cases. In this report we describe five sporadic cases of blastomycosis in asymptomatic patients. All of these cases were initially identified as incidental findings of lung nodules on CXR or CT. To our knowledge, these are the first detailed descriptions of asymptomatic blastomycosis, occurring as sporadic disease, in the literature. Elsevier 2018-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6076388/ /pubmed/30094129 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.05.005 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients
title Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients
title_full Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients
title_fullStr Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients
title_full_unstemmed Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients
title_short Incidental findings of blastomycosis lung nodules in five asymptomatic patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30094129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.05.005
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