Acute Peritoneal Histoplasmosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer and Review of the Literature on Histoplasma Peritonitis

Peritoneal histoplasmosis is a rare entity with few cases reported in the literature. We present a case of isolated acute peritoneal histoplasmosis that mimicked an advanced ovarian malignancy in a patient undergoing antitumor necrosis factor therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. We also reviewed the li...

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Autores principales: Szvalb, Ariel D, Yepez Guevara, Eduardo, Euscher, Elizabeth, Nahmod, Karen A, Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9850267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36686636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac705
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author Szvalb, Ariel D
Yepez Guevara, Eduardo
Euscher, Elizabeth
Nahmod, Karen A
Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P
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description Peritoneal histoplasmosis is a rare entity with few cases reported in the literature. We present a case of isolated acute peritoneal histoplasmosis that mimicked an advanced ovarian malignancy in a patient undergoing antitumor necrosis factor therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. We also reviewed the literature on Histoplasma peritonitis.
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spelling pubmed-98502672023-01-20 Acute Peritoneal Histoplasmosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer and Review of the Literature on Histoplasma Peritonitis Szvalb, Ariel D Yepez Guevara, Eduardo Euscher, Elizabeth Nahmod, Karen A Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Peritoneal histoplasmosis is a rare entity with few cases reported in the literature. We present a case of isolated acute peritoneal histoplasmosis that mimicked an advanced ovarian malignancy in a patient undergoing antitumor necrosis factor therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. We also reviewed the literature on Histoplasma peritonitis. Oxford University Press 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9850267/ /pubmed/36686636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac705 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Szvalb, Ariel D
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Acute Peritoneal Histoplasmosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer and Review of the Literature on Histoplasma Peritonitis
title Acute Peritoneal Histoplasmosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer and Review of the Literature on Histoplasma Peritonitis
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title_short Acute Peritoneal Histoplasmosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer and Review of the Literature on Histoplasma Peritonitis
title_sort acute peritoneal histoplasmosis mimicking ovarian cancer and review of the literature on histoplasma peritonitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9850267/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac705
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