Case Report Disseminated Sporotrichosis Presenting as Sarcoidosis: Electron Microscopic and Immunologic Studies
| Autor: | John Bellome, Douglas Boehm, Glenn R. Hodges, Nabih I. Abdou, Joseph M. Lynch, Robert G. Garrison, Saing H. Lee, William G. Barnes |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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Male
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Sarcoidosis Constitutional symptoms T-Lymphocytes T cell Periodic acid–Schiff stain T-Lymphocytes Regulatory Peripheral blood mononuclear cell Diagnosis Differential medicine Humans Sporothrix schenckii Bronchial Biopsy Granuloma biology Sporotrichosis business.industry Bronchial Diseases General Medicine Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure business |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 283:71-78 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9629 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00000441-198203000-00004 |
| Popis: | A 50-year-old black man with constitutional symptoms, cutaneous nodules, and bilateral hilar adenopathy was found to have non-caseating granulomata on bronchial biopsy. He was treated with corticosteroids for sarcoidosis. Within five months he was found to have disseminated sporotrichosis. Electron microscopy revealed mycelial forms of S. schenckii in superficial lesions and yeast forms from deep tissue sites: no novel forms were seen. Blood mononuclear cell studies revealed hyperactive suppressor cells with respect to non-specific T cell targets and the antigen specific target. Examination of the initial biopsy material after digestion with diastase before PAS staining revealed budding yeast consistent with S. schenckii. This case emphasizes the need for careful histopathologic examination of clinical material before a diagnosis of sarcoidosis is made, and reveals an immunologic abnormality which may account for the patient's anergic state and susceptibility to S. schenckii infection. |
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