Disseminated histoplasmosis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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[Disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome].
No matter how typical a cutaneous eruption may be in a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, early histologic evaluation is necessary if a delay in diagnosis and treatment is to be avoided. We report the case of a 33-year-old man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome who was clinically misdiagnosed as having a drug-induced eruption. Three weeks later he died with disseminated h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 1994
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.70.2.132