A 32-year-old man was referred to our department for surgery because of recurrent pneumonia. Aspergillus fumigatus was detected in his sputum culture at the first visit. We started antifungal therapy one month before surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMüllerian cyst is rarely reported in the literature. Here, we reported a rare case of Müllerian cyst of the posterior mediastinum. The patient was a 46-year-old woman who was found to have an abnormal shadow on chest X-ray film at medical examination and was followed up as suspected of bronchogenic cyst.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 81-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of cough and fever. Chest computed tomography(CT) showed multiple cavitation and ground glass opacity in the right lower lobe. Antibiotic treatment was effective in the improvement of the infiltrative shadow and the inflammatory reaction.
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December 2002
The diagnosis of tuberculosis by X-ray radiogram is often confused with pulmonary carcinoma, bacillary and parasitic infections, and chronic mycosis. A case of pulmonary paragonimiasis misdiagnosed as tuberculosis by X-ray radiogram is reported. With this case, the smears of sputum were rechecked by an inspection technician's discernment, and Paragonimus eggs along with numerous eosinophils and Charcot-Leyden crystals were detected.
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