Cavitation in acute histoplasmosis.
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چکیده
Cavitary lung lesions in histoplasmosis are usually associated with the chronic form of the disease. This report describes a ten-year-old boy with the clinical and serologic pattern of acute Histoplasma capsulatum infection who had multiple cavitary lesions.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Chest
دوره 84 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1983