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Case Reports
. 2018 Aug 30:162:D2700.

[A man with thoracic pain after visiting the tropics]

[Article in Dutch]
Frederieke Elsinger  1   2 , Geertje K R Roos  1 , Maarten A Sulzer  3
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  • PMID: 30212008
Case Reports

[A man with thoracic pain after visiting the tropics]

[Article in Dutch]
Frederieke Elsinger et al. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. .

Abstract

A 25-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department with thoracic pain and coughing after travelling through South America. Radiologic work-up revealed diffuse multifocal consolidations surrounded by a ground-glass halo and thoracic lymphadenopathy. A urine antigen test was positive for Histoplasma capsulatum, a fungus that is endemic in South America and which causes a severe pulmonary infection in 5% of the infected patients.

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