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Case Reports
. 2003 Jan;48(1):123-7.
doi: 10.1067/mjd.2003.64.

Disseminated blastomycosis

Ragheb A Assaly  1 , Jeffrey R Hammersley, Dan E Olson, Azmi Farrouk, Aiman Zaher, Guillermo V Amurao, Walter B Shelley, E Dorinda Shelley, Cristine V Amurao
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Disseminated blastomycosis

Ragheb A Assaly et al. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2003 Jan.

Abstract

A 26-year-old veiled Saudi-Arabian woman presented with hemoptysis, and multiple nodules and abscesses. A skin biopsy specimen revealed yeast forms consistent with Blastomyces dermatitidis. Fungal cultures from bronchoscopy and skin specimens also grew B dermatitidis. She was treated with oral itraconazole (200 mg twice a day). Both lung and skin lesions showed improvement within 6 weeks.

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  • Stool culture to prove blastomycosis.
    Burkhart CN, Burkhart CG. Burkhart CN, et al. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2004 Mar;50(3):486-7. doi: 10.1016/s0190-9622(03)02490-3. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2004. PMID: 14988705 No abstract available.

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