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. 2021 May 25;193(21):E770.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.201177.

Disseminated blastomycosis causing scapular destruction

Hongru Ren  1 , Brett Memauri  2 , Aditya Sharma  2
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Disseminated blastomycosis causing scapular destruction

Hongru Ren et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Aditya Sharma reports owning shares of ContraFect Corporation, Enstatis Therapeutics, Moderna, Pfizer and Relief Therapeutics, outside the submitted work. No other competing interests were declared.

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Figure 1:
Noncontrast enhanced computed tomography scans of a 38-year-old man’s thorax. Coronal reconstructions on the thorax using bone (A) and soft-tissue (B) algorithms showed extensive destruction of the right scapula (thin arrows) from osteomyelitis and a surrounding, multiloculated abscess extending from the scapula to the supraclavicular fossa (thick arrows).
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