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Case Reports

. 2007 Jun;3(6):459-60.

Colonic histoplasmosis

Kourosh F Ghassemi¹, Rex T Wang, V Raman Muthusamy, Janak N Shah

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PMID: 23329905
PMCID: PMC3099329

Case Reports

Colonic histoplasmosis

Kourosh F Ghassemi et al. Gastroenterol Hepatol (N Y). 2007 Jun.

. 2007 Jun;3(6):459-60.

Authors

Kourosh F Ghassemi¹, Rex T Wang, V Raman Muthusamy, Janak N Shah

Affiliation

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco.

PMID: 23329905
PMCID: PMC3099329

No abstract available

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Figures

Figure 1
Colonoscopic view of an ulcer in the sigmoid colon.

Figure 2
Photomicrograph revealed histiocytes with small rounded intracytoplasmic organisms (hematoxylin and eosin stain, 1000x).

Figure 3
Photomicrograph demonstrated numerous yeast forms (Gomori silver stain, 1000x).

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