A 32-year-old man with diabetes had rapid development of acute respiratory failure and
severe hypoxemia. Radiologic and hemodynamic evaluation confirmed the clinical …

A patient with the rare presentation of posterior mediastinal echinococcosis is reported.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MR) demonstrated the extension of a primary retroperitoneal …

Increased travel and outdoor leisure activities place the elderly individual at risk for infection
with the endemic mycoses, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, coccidioidomycoses, and …

Despite recent advances in diagnosis and therapy, pneumonia remains a major cause of
morbidity and mortality. While pathogens usually associated with pneumonia, such as …

[en] A large number of diseases may lead to acute diffuse pulmonary parenchymal
abnormality. The differential diagnosis is difficult because the multiple conditions to be …

A 10-year-old boy had a preoperative chest film for acute appendicitis, which demonstrated
a 3-cm, round, well defined density in the right upper lobe (Fig. 1). Thirteen days after …

Successful Gallium-67 Imaging of North American Pulmonary Blastomycosis Page 1 tures revealed
dysmorphic fungi with PAS stain suggestive of blastomycosis. On admission to our hospital, the …

Except for isolated case reports, blastomycosis has not been identified as a significant
problem in immunosuppressed patients. We describe an unusual case with blastomycotic …

Preview The pulmonary mycoses should no longer be considered unusual infections.
Reasons for the recent reported increase in mycotic infections of the human respiratory …

Blastomycosis is a fungal disease endemic to the midwestern and southeastern United
States. This is a case report of a 29-year-old woman who presented with weight loss, fever …