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. 2023 Mar;58(2):226-228.
doi: 10.5152/TurkArchPediatr.2023.22178.

Fatal Invasive Aspergillosis in a Child with Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis

Fevzi Kahveci  1 , Hasan Özen  1 , Anar Gurbanov  1 , Emrah Gün  1 , Burak Balaban  1 , Hilal Özakıncı  2 , Serpil Dizbay Sak  2 , Nazan Çobanoğlu  3 , Ergin Çiftçi  4 , Tanıl Kendirli  1
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Fatal Invasive Aspergillosis in a Child with Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis

Fevzi Kahveci et al. Turk Arch Pediatr. 2023 Mar.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Radiologic evaluation: (A) Posteroanterior chest x-ray demonstrating bilateral pulmonary infiltrations. (B) Computerized tomography scan of the chest showed ground-glass opacities and interlobular septal thickening in both lung fields.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Microscopic evaluation: Pulmonary parenchymal necrosis (A, B), pulmonary hemosiderosis (C, D – Prussian blue), and fungal hyphae (E, F – Grocott methenamine silver). Slides were scanned with digital scanner (Pannoramic 250 Flash III, 3DHISTECH Ltd., Hungary) in 40× objective and photographed with CaseViewer 1.4 (3DHISTECH Ltd., Hungary ) in 0.7× (A), 10× (B, C, D), and 20× (E, F) magnifications.
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