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Case Reports
. 2017 Feb 16:2017:bcr2017219342.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-219342.

Isolated pulmonary mucormycosis

Raj Kumar Mani  1 , Vipul Mishra  1 , Manish Sharma  1 , Raghupathy Ashok Kumar  2
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Case Reports

Isolated pulmonary mucormycosis

Raj Kumar Mani et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

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Competing interests: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
CT chest shows right hilar lesion with associated subsegmental collapse-consolidation.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Bronchoscopy showing an intraluminal vascular mass-like lesion in the right main stem bronchus that bled on touch.
Figure 3
Figure 3
GMS (Grocott’s methenamine silver) stain of biopsy. Histology of mucosal biopsy showing dense colonies of broad, aseptate as well as irregular branching filamentous hyphae-zygomycetes (mucormycosis) group in a necrotic background.
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References

    1. Tedder M, Spratt JA, Anstadt MP et al. . Pulmonary mucormycosis: results of medical and surgical therapy. Ann Thorac Surg 1994;57:1044–50. doi:10.1016/0003-4975(94)90243-7 - DOI - PubMed

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