Pulmonary Blastomycosis: A case series and review of unique radiological findings

Blastomycosis is a systemic fungal infection which primarily involves the lungs but can disseminate to involve extrapulmonary sites. Current testing that exists includes sputum, urine, serum, and pathological tissue analysis. Radiological testing is often non-specific and highly variable. Here we pr...

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Autores principales: Maini, Ruby, Ranjha, Suhayb, Tandan, Nitin, Regmi, Manjari R., Ullah, Saad, Stone, Taylor, Nayeemuddin, Faraaz, Pervin, Najwa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32477855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.03.006
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Sumario:Blastomycosis is a systemic fungal infection which primarily involves the lungs but can disseminate to involve extrapulmonary sites. Current testing that exists includes sputum, urine, serum, and pathological tissue analysis. Radiological testing is often non-specific and highly variable. Here we present five cases of pulmonary blastomycosis with challenging radiographic presentations.

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