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Pulmonary Scedosporium apiospermum Infection with Pulmonary Tumorlet in an Immunocompetent Patient

Nana Motokawa, Taiga Miyazaki, Atsuko Hara, Yuichi Fukuda, Shigeyuki Morino, Hiroaki Nakamura, Keisuke Iwasaki, Hiroshi Soda, Koichi Izumikawa, Katsunori Yanagihara, Hideaki Ohno, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki (+2 others)
2019 Internal medicine (Tokyo. 1992)  

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Scedosporium apiospermum is an opportunistic fungus that can cause various types of infections, including localized infections and life-threatening disseminated infections, particularly in immunocompromised patients. Treatment is especially challenging due to its multidrug resistance. We herein report the case of a 73-year-old woman who was non-immunocompromised but developed S. apiospermum lung infection and a pulmonary tumorlet. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the coexistence of
more » ... pulmonary S. apiospermum infection and tumorlet. The lung lesion was successfully treated by surgical excision without any antifungal agents, and no recurrence of the tumorlet or S. apiospermum infection has occurred.
doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.1239-18 pmid:30101932 fatcat:xceqhwuadjb2phnni2sitmayf4
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Nana Motokawa, Taiga Miyazaki, Atsuko Hara, Yuichi Fukuda, Shigeyuki Morino, Hiroaki Nakamura, Keisuke Iwasaki, Hiroshi Soda, Koichi Izumikawa, Katsunori Yanagihara, Hideaki Ohno, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Shigeru Kohno, Hiroshi Mukae. "Pulmonary Scedosporium apiospermum Infection with Pulmonary Tumorlet in an Immunocompetent Patient." Internal medicine (Tokyo. 1992) 57.23 (2019)