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Volume 11, Number 1, January 2005

Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis

Cheng-Yi Wang,* Jih-Shuin Jerng,* Jen-Chung Ko,† Ming-Feng Lin,† Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao,* Li-Na Lee,* Po-Ren Hsueh,* and Sow-Hsong Kuo*
*National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and †Hsin-Chu General Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan

 
 
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Figure. A) Chest radiograph shows diffuse nodular lesions in both lungs. B) Chest radiographic scan taken 2 months later shows coalescence of nodular shadows and almost complete white-out of bilateral lung fields. C) Hematoxylin and eosin staining of the wound specimen from pleural biopsy site showed spherules of Coccidioides immitis and chronic necrotizing granulomatous inflammation (400x).

 

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