Unilateral Adrenal Enlargement Due to Histoplasma capsulatum
| Autor: | Marsha A. Swartz, James L. Kirk, Don A. Wilson, W. Daryl Dickey, Harold G. Muchmore, Jan Pitha, R. Hal Scofield |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Adult
Male Microbiology (medical) Pathology medicine.medical_specialty chemical and pharmacologic phenomena complex mixtures Asymptomatic Histoplasma capsulatum Histoplasmosis Diagnosis Differential fluids and secretions Neoplasms Adrenal Glands medicine Humans Disseminated disease Mycosis Aged Granuloma biology business.industry Enlarged adrenal glands Middle Aged bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases Adrenal enlargement medicine.symptom Differential diagnosis Tomography X-Ray Computed business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Infectious Diseases. 23:813-815 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 1058-4838 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/clinids/23.4.813 |
| Popis: | Human infection with Histoplasma capsulatum runs the gamut from asymptomatic to disseminated disease. CT-directed fine-needle aspiration of bilaterally enlarged adrenal glands has been used in diagnosing serious infections with this ubiquitous organism. Three cases have previously been reported in which H. capsulatum infection caused unilateral adrenal enlargement ; this enlargement was diagnosed post-mortem. We describe three patients with unilateral adrenal enlargement due to H. capsulatum whose conditions were diagnosed antemortem. We encourage clinicians to include infection with H. capsulatum as well as other granulomatous diseases and tumors in the differential diagnosis of unilateral adrenal enlargement. |
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