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Review
. 2014 Jun;192(3):347-57.
doi: 10.1007/s00408-014-9568-7. Epub 2014 Mar 11.

Pulmonary diseases with imaging findings mimicking aspergilloma

Fernando Ferreira Gazzoni  1 , Luiz Carlos Severo, Edson Marchiori, Marcos Duarte Guimarães, Tiago Severo Garcia, Klaus L Irion, José Jesus Camargo, José Carlos Felicetti, Flavio de Mattos Oliveira, Bruno Hochhegger
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Pulmonary diseases with imaging findings mimicking aspergilloma

Fernando Ferreira Gazzoni et al. Lung. 2014 Jun.

Abstract

Patients with preexisting lung cavities are at risk of developing intracavitary fungal colonization. Because Aspergillus spp. are the most commonly implicated fungi, these fungal masses are called aspergillomas. Their characteristic "ball-in-hole" appearance, however, may be found in a variety of other conditions that can produce radiologic findings mimicking aspergilloma. In this paper, we review the main diseases that may mimic the radiographic findings of aspergilloma, with brief descriptions of clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic findings.

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