Phaeoacremonium species detected in fine needle aspiration: a rare case report

BACKGROUND: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) with rapid on-site evaluation has a great potential for the diagnosis of fungal lesions and other opportunistic infections. Fungal infections have been in increasing trend in the past two decades due to immunosuppression, travel, and environmental e...

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Autores principales: Tummidi, Santosh, Naik, Bitan, Shankaralingappa, Arundhathi, Balakrishna, Pavithra, Bhadada, Arati Ankushrao, Kosaraju, Navya
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32951607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-020-01023-w
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author Tummidi, Santosh
Naik, Bitan
Shankaralingappa, Arundhathi
Balakrishna, Pavithra
Bhadada, Arati Ankushrao
Kosaraju, Navya
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Naik, Bitan
Shankaralingappa, Arundhathi
Balakrishna, Pavithra
Bhadada, Arati Ankushrao
Kosaraju, Navya
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description BACKGROUND: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) with rapid on-site evaluation has a great potential for the diagnosis of fungal lesions and other opportunistic infections. Fungal infections have been in increasing trend in the past two decades due to immunosuppression, travel, and environmental exposure. Human disease caused by Phaeoacremonium species is rare and was first reported in 1974 as subcutaneous tissue infection in a renal transplant recipient. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of subcutaneous tissue swelling in a 67-year-old male, wherein FNAC was done with incidental detection of the fungus (Phaeoacremonium spp). CONCLUSION: There are very few reported cases of subcutaneous infection in humans by Phaeoacremonium spp. Clinical suspicion and FNAC can play an important role in early detection of the fungus, prevent spread, and facilitating early treatment.
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spelling pubmed-75048612020-09-23 Phaeoacremonium species detected in fine needle aspiration: a rare case report Tummidi, Santosh Naik, Bitan Shankaralingappa, Arundhathi Balakrishna, Pavithra Bhadada, Arati Ankushrao Kosaraju, Navya Diagn Pathol Case Report BACKGROUND: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) with rapid on-site evaluation has a great potential for the diagnosis of fungal lesions and other opportunistic infections. Fungal infections have been in increasing trend in the past two decades due to immunosuppression, travel, and environmental exposure. Human disease caused by Phaeoacremonium species is rare and was first reported in 1974 as subcutaneous tissue infection in a renal transplant recipient. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of subcutaneous tissue swelling in a 67-year-old male, wherein FNAC was done with incidental detection of the fungus (Phaeoacremonium spp). CONCLUSION: There are very few reported cases of subcutaneous infection in humans by Phaeoacremonium spp. Clinical suspicion and FNAC can play an important role in early detection of the fungus, prevent spread, and facilitating early treatment. BioMed Central 2020-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7504861/ /pubmed/32951607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-020-01023-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Tummidi, Santosh
Naik, Bitan
Shankaralingappa, Arundhathi
Balakrishna, Pavithra
Bhadada, Arati Ankushrao
Kosaraju, Navya
Phaeoacremonium species detected in fine needle aspiration: a rare case report
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title_fullStr Phaeoacremonium species detected in fine needle aspiration: a rare case report
title_full_unstemmed Phaeoacremonium species detected in fine needle aspiration: a rare case report
title_short Phaeoacremonium species detected in fine needle aspiration: a rare case report
title_sort phaeoacremonium species detected in fine needle aspiration: a rare case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32951607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-020-01023-w
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